Given Information:
The company that you manage has invested $5 million in developing a new product, but the development is not quite finished. At a recent meeting, your salespeople report that the introduction of competing products has reduced the expected sales of your new product to $2 million. If it would cost $1 million to finish development and make the product, should you go ahead and do so? What is the most that you should pay to complete the development?
Answer:
Yes, because the total loss would then be $3 million rather than $5 million. The most you should pay to complete the development would be $2 million.
Explanation:
Every product or service that is marketed or is related against, and competitive with, a product or service created or produced by Fiserv or manufactured or distributed. Competitive Product or Service
In the end demand for the product declines due to the exhaustion of supply and economies and new technologies and shifts in the preferences of the customer.
The projected benefit generated by the new product must be offset by the profits from expenses in the project appraisal.
Answer:
True
Explanation:
Off balance sheet items are transactions that generate fees for the business (such as guarantees), and to hedge against future loss (such as futures investments).
Meaning assets and liabilities that are deferred or contingent to business success.
Answer:
Is often gathered BEFORE primary data
Explanation:
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Answer:
The answer is:
- 2022 most accurate inventory
- 2021 least accurate inventory
Explanation:
Garret Market uses a periodic inventory system (updates are made on a periodic basis) and in order to carry out this process correctly, the inventory should remain closed. Only in 2022 was the inventory closed, so it should be the most accurate. In 2021 the store remained fully opened and inventory was modified daily, so it should be the least accurate.
Answer:
D) is not acceptable because such a guarantee would cause a conflict of interest pertaining to the IA's fiduciary duty to each client
Explanation:
The members of the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) must follow their Model Rule which prohibits investment adviser firms from guaranteeing investment results, in other words they cannot guarantee a minimum profit.
In this case the employee suggested that if their clients didn't earn a minimum 12% profit, then they would refund any fees collected. But the IA firm is not allowed to guarantee the 12% value increase or profit.
