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Strategic positioning involves performing the same activities as rivals in a similar way, but at a lower cost. True or false?.

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It is false. By preserving what is unique about a company, strategic positioning aims to achieve long-term competitive advantage. It refers to engaging in different activities from competitors or engaging in comparable activities but in various ways.

Companies can use strategic positioning as a key instrument to increase business profit. Determining how to set themselves apart from rivals may be a crucial step in developing the goal and operating principles of new businesses. By expanding the volume of products they produce and the market they serve, strategic positioning can aid established businesses in growing. Executives of a firm may find it helpful to attract investors and media attention by being able to articulate how their organization differs from that of its rivals.

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b. Organizational justice.

Explanation:

In reacting to the allegations that Google engages in "systematic compensation disparities against women" and the request of payroll records by the U.S. Department of Labor in 2017.

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For the purpose of trust, loyalty and progressive work attitudes, it is very important that organizations prioritize organizational justice.

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Transactions involving the purchase and sale of fixed assets would be considered INVESTING activities.
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3 years ago

Which of these is NOT a safe skill to employ in the presence of road workers?

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C. Drive at the posted speed limit

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The answer choices for this question are:

A. Keep alert and watch out for construction barrels or cones

B. Slow down even if you don't think you'll hit a road worker

C. Drive at the posted speed limit

D. Keep as much distance as you can while navigating around them

Since the conditions of the road are not the best, you should drive below the posted speed of limit.

The only presence of workers on the road represent a risk for them and for you.

The number of lanes are reduced, the road could present potholes, dirt, stones, or even some substances that make the pavement slippery. You could not have good visibility.

All those risks make that you have to be extremely careful, reduce your speed, lower than than the posted speed limit.

Thus, you should:

A. Keep alert and watch out for construction barrels or cones

B. Slow down even if you don't think you'll hit a road worker

C. NOT drive at the posted speed limit

D. Keep as much distance as you can while navigating around them

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Frasier Cabinets wants to maintain a growth rate of 5 percent without incurring any additional equity financing. The firm mainta

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Option E is correct. Pay out ratio is 73.74 %

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Payout ratio shows how much portion of the net earning the company pay to its shareholders in form of cash dividend. Higher pay out ratio implies that company pay large portion of its earning to shareholder.

Mathematically, pay out ratio is = 1 - Retention Ratio ------ (a)

Retention ration shows portion of the earning that the company has retained for future investment or operation or growth.

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Growth rate = 5 % or 0.05

Debt to equity ratio = 0.55

Assets turn over = 1.30

Profit Margin = 9 % or 0.09

Retention ration can be calculated from sustainable growth ratio formula.

Sustainable growth rate = Retention ratio x Return on equity

Sustainable growth rate means the growth rate that the company wants to maintain in future.

Retention ratio = Sustainable growth rate / Return on equity ---- (b)

Return on equity is not given the question but it can be calculated from Du Pont equation.

According to Du Pont equation,

Return on Equity = Profit Margin x Assets Turn Over x Financial leverage

Return on Equity = 0.09 x 1.30 x ( 1 + 0.55) = 0.18135

Let r be retention ratio, Then

Sustainable growth rate = (0.18135 x r)/ ( 1- (0.18135 x r))

0.05 = (0.18135 x r)/ ( 1- (0.18135 x r))

r = 0.2626 = Retention ratio

Putting the value of retention ratio in equation (a)

Payout ratio = 1 - Retention ratio = 1 - 0.2626 = 0.7374 or 73.74 %.

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