Better-than-anticipated sales have left your company with an unexpected profit. You attribute this to some of the decisions you made using the marketing information you have collected. You realize that there are many trends that are not easily visible from the information you have collected. You want to take all of the information you have collected and have it analyzed carefully to discover connections not visible with simpler marketing technology. You have decided to hire someone who specializes in marketing research to help interpret the large stream of data. Which system should you choose

Aquatic marine stores company manufactures special metallic materials and decorative fittings for luxury yachts that require highly skilled labor. aquatic uses standard costs to prepare its flexible budget. for the first quarter of the year, direct materials and direct labor standards for one of their popular products were as follows: direct materials: 3 pounds per unit; $ 6 per pound direct labor: 4 hours per unit; $ 19 per hour during the first quarter, aquatic produced 5 comma 000 units of this product. actual direct materials and direct labor costs were $ 65 comma 000 and $ 330 comma 000, respectively. for the purpose of preparing the flexible budget, calculate the total standard direct materials cost at a production volume of 5 comma 000 units.

Although appealing to more refined tastes, art as a collectible has not always performed so profitably. during 2003, an auction house sold a sculpture at auction for a price of $10,211,500. unfortunately for the previous owner, he had purchased it in 2000 at a price of $12,177,500. what was his annual rate of return on this sculpture? (a negative answer should be indicated by a minus sign. do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as

Before the tools that have come from computational psychiatry are ready to be used in everyday practice by psychiatrics, what is needed