AB Corp. hires Natasha Cooper, a popular movie actress, to be the brand ambassador for the company. The company hopes that endorsements of its products by the actress will increase the popularity of the brand and also attract a large number of customers. Receivers who respond favorably to Natasha's endorsements will express:.
a. source derogations.
b. counterarguments.
c. source bolsters.
d. source blockages.
e. message synergy.

In mexico, many garment or sewing shops found they could entice many young people to work for them if they offered clean, air conditioned work areas with high-quality locker rooms to clean up in after the work day. typically, traditional garment shops had to offer to get workers to apply for the hard, repetitive, and somewhat dangerous work. a. benchmark competitive wages b.compensating differentials c. monopoly wages d. wages based on human capital development of each employee

Consider the following condensed financial statements of money freedom comma inc. the company's target rate of return is 30%: (click the icon to view the comparative balance sheet.) (click the icon to view the income statement.) requirements 1. calculate the company's roi. round all of your answers to four decimal places. 2. calculate the company's profit margin ratio. interpret your results. 3. calculate the company's asset turnover ratio. interpret your results. 4. use the expanded roi formula to confirm your results from requirement 1. interpret your results. 5. calculate the company's ri. interpret your results. requirement 1. calculate the company's roi. round all of your answers to four decimal places. begin by selecting the formula to calculate return on investment (roi), and then enter the amounts to calculate the company's roi. (round your calculations to four decimal places and enter your answer as a percent, x.xx%)

P8-4b dropping unfavorable division based on the following analysis of last year's operations of groves, inc., a financial vice president of the company believes that the firm's total net income could be increased by $160,000 if its design division were discontinued. (amounts are given in the thousands of dollars.) required provide answers for each of the following independent situations: a. assuming that total fixed costs and expenses would not be affected by discontinuing the design division, prepare an analysis showing why you agree or disagree with the vice president. b. assume that the discontinuance of the design division will enable the company to avoid 30% of the fixed portion of cost of services and 40% of the fixed operating expenses allocated to the design division. calculate the resulting effect on net income. c. assume that in addition to the cost avoidance in requirement (b), the capacity released by discontinuance of the design division can be used to provide 6,000 new services that would have a variable cost per service of $60 and would require additional fixed costs totaling $68,000. at what unit price must the new service be sold if groves is to increase its total net income by $180,000?