Lauren is heading home from work and realizes she forgot to buy cat food during her lunch hour. as she navigates the traffic, she tries to decide where it will be most convenient to stop. she could go to the large discount store, which would give her the best price, but the lines are usually long after work. there are a couple of convenience stores on her route, but she isn't certain they will have her cat's brand. the grocery store is no better than the discount store after work. she settles on one of the drug store chains that also has just about everything. it is larger than the convenience stores, but never as crowded as the grocery store or discount store. in terms of consumer behavior, influences have guided lauren's decision.

You are the new chief information officer for the video-game developer, necturus games. the company has recently undergone a major expansion of its primary product, and you must staff up the is department and determine the best way to develop new game "capsules" for the game, "escape velocity."

Starting at age 30, you deposit $2000 a year into an ira account for retirement. treat the yearly deposits into the account as a continuous income stream. if money in the account earns 7%, compounded continuously, how much will be in the account 35 years later, when you retire at age 65? how much of the final amount is interest?

Which of the following differentiates cost accounting and financial accounting? a. the primary users of cost accounting are the investors, whereas the primary users of financial accounting are the managers. b. cost accounting measures only the financial information related to the costs of acquiring fixed assets in an organization, whereas financial accounting measures financial and nonfinancial information of a company's business transactions. c. cost accounting measures information related to the costs of acquiring or using resources in an organization, whereas financial accounting measures a financial position of a company to investors, banks, and external parties. d. cost accounting deals with product design, production, and marketing strategies, whereas financial accounting deals mainly with pricing of the products.