Answer: 1) Carol can use the surve results to . identify the building blocks of competitive advantage and develop strategies to use them to increase profitability and in this way try to get the most out of it.
2) Strategically, managers who have identified these advanced factors should <u>take steps to protect these assets, either formally or as a trade secret, optimize the company's use of them and not outsource them to other firms </u>because it is convenient to try that the competition does not find out about the use of this factor of production so that it cannot imitate them and thus be able to gain a greater market share to the competition.
3) The statement "in response to requests from customers for healthier food on the menu, a restaurant tweaks its recipe for its most popular sandwich to remove processed ingredients and replace them with fresh vegetables." describes a strategy that adds value to multiple factors as it goes through several activities in the value chain because the company's decision to use less processed ingredients and more fresh vegetables not only facilitates production but also responds to a customer need, which will value the products even more.
A car purchase would be an example of a short term financial goal.
I thought it would be B. Because if she is doing audit and knows someone in the company that is helping with the audit, she is NOT legally able to do the audit! That is what I learned in accounting anyway. I am not sure though just an input.I would pick B.
Answer:
A. Included in GDP under government expenditures
B. Not included in GDP
C. Included in GDP under consumption expenditures
Explanation:
Gross domestic product is the sum of all final goods and services produced in an economy within a given period which is usually a year.
Gross domestic product can be calculated using the expenditure approach:
GDP = Consumption spending on both durable and non durable goods and services + business spending on cqpital goods + Government Spending on public goods and services + Net Export
Items not included in the calculation of GDP are :
1. Transfer payments
2. Illegal activities
3. Purchase of shares
4. Intermediate goods
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