Answer:
The correct answer is letter "A": Facility location analysis considers the competitive imperative to be close to customers as to timeliness of deliveries.
Explanation:
Facility location is part of the research and computational geometry in charge of determining the localization of a company's branches to be closest as possible to the firm's target customers, workers, and suppliers by minimizing the costs. Other factors such as free trading zones or environmental policies are also taken into consideration.
Answer and Explanation:
a. The Journal entries are shown below:-
Investment - Capital stock Dr, $51.5 million
To Cash $51.5 million
(Being investment is recorded)
Unrealized holding gain or loss Dr, $15.5 million ($51.5 - $36.0)
To Fair value adjustment $15.5 million
(Being fair value adjustment is recorded)
b. Unrealized holding gain or loss Dr, $5.5 million ($51.5 - $30.5 - $15.5)
To Fair value adjustment $5.5 million
(Being fair value adjustment before sale is recorded)
Cash Dr, $30.5 million
Unrealized holding gain or loss Dr, $21 million
To Investment - Capital stock $51.5 million
(Being sale of investment is recorded)
Answer:
cyclical unemployment.
Explanation:
Unemployment rate refers to the percentage of the total labor force in an economy, who are unemployed but seeking to be gainfully employed. The unemployment rate is divided into various types, these include;
I. Cyclical unemployment rate (CU).
II. Frictional unemployment rate (FU).
III. Structural unemployment rate (SU).
IV. Actual unemployment rate (AU).
V. Natural Rate of Unemployment (NU).
A cyclical unemployment can be defined as a type of unemployment which is typically related to changes in the business, economy or industry cycle such as recession, governmental policies etc.
Mathematically, cyclical unemployment rate can be calculated using the formula;

Hence, the increase in unemployment that occurs during recessions and depressions is called cyclical unemployment
Answer:
the correct answer is C
Explanation:
As described in the chapter case, which of the following constitutes a managerial element of the UPS tracking system?
C) The decision to use automation
Answer:
1. $31,000
2. $40,000
Explanation:
1. Computation of bad debt expenses for the year
Bad debt expenses = Credit sales × Bad debts expenses
= $1,550,000 × 2%
= $31,000
2. Computation of year end balance
Year end balance = Beginning balance + Bad debt expense - Written off
= $31,000 + $31,000 - $22,000
= $40,000
Therefore for computing the bad debt expenses and year end balance we simply applied the above formula.