Answer: E (Both B & C)
Explanation:
As a staff in Coca-Cola, the number one brand in the world, Externally providing buyers with what they perceive as superior value and Internally performing value chain activities differently than rivals and building resources and capabilities that they cannot readily match - is infact the main reasons Coca-Cola have stayed as the major player in the food and beverage industry.
Answer:
B. A strategic action because such a large plant expansion will require a major commitment of resources.
Explanation:
There are two major forms of action in business decision making: strategic and tactical. Strategic action deals with decision that require major planning and investment of resource. Strategic actions have long term implementation and effect and are difficult to reverse.
Tactical actions, on the other hand, are flexible and involves actions taken on short term basis. Tactical actions are majorly bye-product of strategic decision.
On this note, Circus Aircraft`s decision to double its plant capacity over the next two years is a strategic action because such a large plant expansion will require a major commitment of resources. And the action will not easily reversible.
Other options in the question are not totally right.
Answer:
First of all, an auditor must be skeptical about the information that he/she is gathering and analyzing. They should try to get as much audit evidence as they can in order to form an opinion. But an auditor can also reasonably assure that there are no material misstatements, either intentional or not intentional.
Most auditor procedures are intended to discover unintentional misstatements, but intentional misstatements are very hard to discover because more than one individual (or even a very large group) might have colluded in order to conceal them. The auditor gets his information from the controller, internal auditor, and other people within the organization, but what if they all colluded in order to conceal their bad actions.
E.g. an auditor should check for shipping receipts to be complete, accurate and in order, but he/she relies on information given by the same people that he/she is evaluating. The auditor can conclude that the shipping reports are complete, but he/she cannot state that they are true and valid because he/she wasn't there.
In tradition based economy, it has its components, strong points and weakness. Their weakness could affect the people in different ways and in the following above is one of them. The correct answer would be number 2, it has great difficulty dealing with change, it is because this type of economy is accustomed with their traditions that when change kicks in, they would have problems because they are new and used to it.
