Merchargy is a firm that supplies garments to apparel stores. merchargy discovered that one of its customers, apricoress, a large apparel store, had been selling the products sourced from merchargy at exorbitant rates. as this was a violation of their trade contract, merchargy filed a suit against apricoress on the grounds of fraud and won the case. apricoress incurred huge losses because of the compensation it had to pay merchargy. in the context of the general environment, this scenario best illustrates the effect of the on organizations.
a) technological component
b) sociocultural component
c) legal component
d) geographical component

Cool beans is a locally owned coffee shop that competes with two large coffee chains, planeteuro and frothies. alicia, the owner, hired two students to count the number of customers that entered each of the coffee shops to estimate what percent of people who are interested in coffee are visiting each shop. after a week, the students found the following results: 589 visited cool beans, 839 visited planeteuro, and 1,290 visited frothies. the students were surprised that cool beans had 139 visits on monday which represented 59% of all people who visited one of the three coffee shops on mondays. how many people visited one of the three coffee shops during the week?

Ursus, inc., is considering a project that would have a five-year life and would require a $1,650,000 investment in equipment. at the end of five years, the project would terminate and the equipment would have no salvage value. the project would provide net operating income each year as follows (ignore income taxes.):

Use the information below to answer the following question. the boxwood company sells blankets for $60 each. the following was taken from the inventory records during may. the company had no beginning inventory on may 1. date blankets units cost may 3 purchase 5 $20 10 sale 3 17 purchase 10 $24 20 sale 6 23 sale 3 30 purchase 10 $30 assuming that the company uses the perpetual inventory system, determine the gross profit for the month of may using the lifo cost method.