Thanks to his firm's decentralization and use of responsibility accounting, Matt has more time to review a proposed new joint venture with one of the firm's business partners. What advantage of decentralization does this illustrate?

It encourages top level management to concentrate and focus on strategic and profitable decisions.

Explanation:

As organizations expand, decentralization becomes very necessary and crucial. This is because responsibilities increase for top managers/group of managers who run the entire organization as a result of increase in products and services offered by the organization.

As organizations expand, the need for strategic decision-making for organization's progress increases. As decentralization plays in,

1. it helps to make quicker strategic decisions

2. develops performance measures

3. it motivates local managers who are given more responsibility and the control necessary to manage their responsibility

4. it helps to refocus top management on issues important to specific segment and on broader organization-wide issues.

5. it increases expertise as local managers who have expertise are delegated with decision-making authority in specific products.

As decentralization and responsibility accounting played in, Matt and one of the firm's business partners now had more time to strategically plan and make profitable decisions for the proposed new joint venture.

answer: marginal utility of the fourth brownie is 0.

explanation: marginal utility is the addtional utility gained from the consumption of one more unit of a good. it is given by,

so, marginal utility at the 4th unit will be given by

since, the values are not given here, you can simply find marginal utility at fourth unit by subtracting total utility at 3rd unit from total utility at 4th unit.