Derst Incorporated sells a particular textbook for $30. Variable expenses are $23 per book. At the current volume of 55,000 books sold per year the company is just breaking even. Given these data, the annual fixed expenses associated with the textbook total:

Which of the following is not a characteristic of enterprise applications that cause challenges in implementation? a. they introduce "switching costs," making the firm dependent on the vendor. b. they cause integration difficulties as every vendor uses different data and processes. c. they are complex and time consuming to implement. d. they support "best practices" for each business process and function. e. they require sweeping changes to business processes to work with the software.