A firm achieves differentiation parity ideally when it sells its products or services at a higher price than its competitors.  
The idea of parity is that a company sells its products at a higher cost than competitors even though the product or service isn't unique. Differentiation is when one companies products compete and are better than another with the same product. 
        
             
        
        
        
Answer:
The correct answer is the option B: clear financial goals and expectations.  
Explanation:
To begin with, before a new product is developed a company must follow a precise protocol in which the marketing mix plan is already established and therefore once that the company states the 4Ps of their marketing mix, it establishes the features of the product including characteristics of what it will be and do; the target audience including the costumers' preferences, needs and wants; the distribution channels and the promotion strategy. 
To continue, <u><em>the protocol must establishes clear financial goals and expectations</em></u> in order to know how much is available to spend and how much of time will it take to create the product and to obtain the return of investment as well. Therefore, once that the marketing mix is established, the company needs to have in mind their expectations and expenditures. 
 
        
             
        
        
        
Answer:
b. we should get an accurate picture of how all consumer goods and services prices changed from year to year. 
Explanation:
Wether it is ased on a fixed goods of goods or based on a changing goods of goods that gets old after time, we should check how is it work with this policy
The goal for the index is to adjust the value of assets by the inflation rate to calcualte the loss for having dollar bills.
 
        
             
        
        
        
Answer:
D. continuous review system
Explanation:
In the context of manufacturing it seems that the system being described would be a continuous review system. Like mentioned in the question this is a system that automatically adjusts the stock level in real time when a product moves in or out of stock, and automatically triggers an order for more stock as soon as the stock level hits a low quantity point is hit.
 
        
             
        
        
        
Answer:
$2000
Explanation:
According to CDC research, each employee who smokes costs his or her organization approximately $2000 per year due to reasons such as; 
• Smoke breaks at work which accumulate to reduce the amount of time spent doing productive work.
• Health related issues resulting from smoking that may cost the organization money or cause the employee to be absent from work (research shows that smokers are absent from work more than non smokers.
Therefore, for each smoker who quits smoking, Hanson Manufacturing will gain approximately $2000 in productivity.