Answer: Resellers
Explanation:
Resellers buy products from other businesses but do not significantly alter the form of the products they buy before selling them.
A reseller is a type of channel partner that acts as an intermediary between companies that make, distribute or provide IT products or services and end customers, which may be businesses or consumers. A key reseller role has been order fulfillment: The customer goes to a reseller to simplify the ordering process and offload procurement and order processing tasks.
Working with a reseller can also streamline product sourcing. A business that needs to purchase multiple technology components can make those purchases through a single reseller versus approaching multiple manufacturers or service providers directly. Competitive pricing may also attract customers to resellers.
Answer: Option (d) is correct.
Explanation:
Correct option: Only a perfectly competitive firm operates at its efficient scale.
In the perfectly competitive market and in the long run, the firms who are making losses will exit the market and those firms who are able produce at a point where price is equal to the average total cost will exist in the market.
However, monopolistic firms operates at a below efficient level of production and with an excess capacity.
Competitive firms are generally enjoys the productive efficiency in the long run because these firms have the capability to produce at a lower average total cost.
Answer:
they have an opportunity to exploit network effects and positive feedback loops
Explanation:
The first mover advantage refers to competitive advantages that can be achieved by a firm that first enters a market or launches a new product first. E.g. Volkswagen has a first mover advantage in China because it was the first foreign car manufacturer to successfully a car factory there. Another type of first mover advantage would be the ones obtained by Apple for launching the first smartphone.
Network effects refers to a good or service becoming more valuable because more people purchase or use them, e.g. social media apps.
Positive feedback loops occurs when a company's output is used as a positive input in the productive system, e.g. when a company uses information gathered by customer service (CRM) to improve the products or services it offers.
Answer:
Job 301 $ 11,000
Job 302 $ 16,500
Job 303 $ 22,000
Explanation:
To calculate the overhead rate <u>we divide the estimated overhead cost by the estimated cost driver:</u>
0.55 overhead rate
Job 301 $20,000 labor cost x 0.55 overhead rate
11,000
Job 302 $30,000 labor cost x 0.55 overhead rate
16,500
Job 303 $40,000 labor cost x 0.55 overhead rate
22,000
