Cultures around the world are becoming increasingly similar, so companies should standardize both their products and global marketing efforts. do you agree or disagree with this line of reasoning? explain. are there certain industries for which the statement might be more or less true? choose 1 industry/company for which you think this statement is true and 1 for which you think it is not true and compare. make sure you elaborate using sources (articles, )

The link between volume of production and the cost of building manufacturing operations is particularly important in industries characterized byanswers: process innovations.product manufacturing.product innovation.process manufacturing.

Ardmore farm and seed has an inventory dilemma. they have been selling a brand of very popular insect spray for the past year. they have never really analyzed the costs incurred from ordering and holding the inventory and currently fave a large stock of the insecticide in the warehouse. they estimate that it costs $25 to place an order, and it costs $0.25 per gallon to hold the spray. the annual requirements total 80,000 gallons for a 365 day year.a. assuming that 10,000 gallons are ordered each time an order is placed, estimate the annual inventory costs.b. calculate the eoq.c. given the eoq calculated in part b., how many orders should be placed and what is the average inventory balance? d. if it takes seven days to receive an order from suppliers, at what inventory level should ardmore place another order?

Abank has $132,000 in excess reserves and the required reserve ratio is 11 percent. this means the bank could have in checkable deposit liabilities and in (total) reserves.