Product supply turns to shadow it. you are a section manager in the product supply department of a midsized manufacturing firm located in albuquerque, new mexico. the department manager has called a meeting of all section managers to get input on his idea to contract with a cloud service provider to provide sales forecasting and inventory management software and services. the goal is to reduce the number of out-of-stock occurrences while maintaining a minimum level of finished product inventory. the cloud service provider requires detailed order, shipment, and promotion data for the past three years in addition to ongoing current data. members of the product supply department will be able to access the software to develop sales forecasts and make better manufacturing and inventory decisions. the new sales forecasting and inventory management software will eliminate the use of several existing software systems implemented years ago by the company's information systems organization. which change model could best identify the full scope and impact of this change

Symantec corp., located in cupertino, california, is one of the world's largest producers of security and systems management software. the company's consolidated balance sheets for the 2009 and 2008 fiscal years included the following ($ in thousands): current assets: receivables, less allowances of $21,766 in 2009 and $24,089 in 2008 $ 838,010 $ 758,700 a disclosure note accompanying the financial statements reported the following ($ in thousands): year ended 2009 2008 (in thousands) trade accounts receivable, net: receivables $ 859,776 $ 782,789 less: allowance for doubtful accounts (8,938) (8,990) less: reserve for product returns (12,828) (15,099) trade accounts receivable, net: $ 838,010 $ 758,700 assume that the company reported bad debt expense in 2009 of $2,000 and had products returned for credit totaling $3,230 (sales price). net sales for 2009 were $6,174,800 (all numbers in thousands).required: what is the amount of accounts receivable due from customers at the end of 2009 and 2008? what amount of accounts receivable did symentec write off during 2009? what is the amount of symentec’s gross sales for the 2009 fiscal year? assuming that all sales are made on a credit basis, what is the amount of cash symentec collected from customers during the 2009 fiscal year?

Adds up the money earned by producers plus taxes paid to the goverment. a) income approach b) product approach c) expenditure approach

Cash flow is often a problem for small businesses. how can an entrepreneur increase cash flow? a) locate lower-priced suppliers. b) forego sending in estimated tax payments to the irs c) shorten the terms on a bank loan to pay it off more quickly d) sell more low-margin items.