Answer:
1. Pressures for local responsiveness may make it difficult to ______________________________.
monitor and adapt to changing customer tastes in a large number of foreign markets
2. __________________________is the most appropriate strategy when there are substantial differences across nations with regard to consumer tastes and preferences, and where cost pressures are not too intense.
Localization strategy
3. ___________________________ is the most appropriate strategy when the firm simultaneously faces strong pressures for both cost reductions and local responsiveness.
Transnational strategy
4. A firm facing low pressures for local responsiveness and few pressures to contain costs might best pursue a(n) _______________________.
international strategy
5. Markets are dynamic, and any firm will face competition. In time, international and localization strategies tend to become less viable, and managers need to ________________________________.
orient their companies toward either a global standardization or transnational strategy
Explanation:
When a company's global business activities are coordinated via cooperation and interdependence between its head office, operational divisions, and internationally located subsidiaries or retail outlets, the entity tends to realize more competitive advantages than when it uses a single strategy. This is why the transnational strategy is offering the best alternative for international businesses in the globalized economy.
Answer:
Repeating of elements in a design.
Explanation:
Repetition is defined as repeating a single element several times in a design. In arts, repeat patterns are used by the artists. Repeat Pattern is the repetition of lines, shapes, colors, textures and forms. Artists and designers used patterns to discover their decorative style, to understand their structural form and to communicate their intrinsic beauty so for these reasons repetition is used.
Answer: 1.27
Explanation:
The acid test ratio of a company measure how well a company would be able to pay off its current liabilities using its most liquid current assets (current assets less inventory).
= (Cash + Accounts Receivable) / Current liabilities
= (40,000 + 55,000) / 75,000
= 95,000 / 75,000
= 1.27
Answer: C. The decline in the P/E ratio more than offset earnings growth and this pushed the market cap down.
Explanation:
Market Cap = P/E ratio * Earnings
Market cap is dependent on both the P/E ratio and Earnings as shown by the formula and as shown on the graph, the P/E ratio kept on decreasing which means that for the Market Cap to decrease, the downward pull of the P/E ratio must have overshadowed the growth in earnings such that the Market Cap went down instead of up.
For instance, if the earnings were $40 billion and the P/E ratio was 15, Market Cap would be $600 billion.
If earnings increased to $45 billion but P/E ratio decreased to 10, Market Cap would become $450 billion.
Answer: a. appropriations exceed estimated revenues
Explanation:
A Budgetary Fund Balance is simply an account that Government agencies and Departments have to calculate the difference between expected inflows and Outflows for the period that a budget covers.
It is a temporary account with it's balance going to the General fund. If it is debited in the General fund then that means that Appropriations approved for the period are more than the revenues expected. The reverse is true.
