A study of top executives at fortune 500 companies discovered that the single biggest reason for managerial failure is:

a. poor interpersonal skills

b. poor training

c. lack of experience

d. lack of education

Irving's Rib Shack is a regional chain of barbecue restaurants. They have a long-standing policy that the recipe for their signature barbecue sauce is not to be made public. What type of intellectual property protection keeps the recipe secret?

Which product is most likely to be the most price elastic? milk housing clothing automobiles

Claremont company specializes in selling refurbished copiers. during the month, the company sold 210 copiers for total sales of $756,000. the budget for the month was to sell 205 copiers at an average price of $3,800.

Customer discrimination occurs when customers refuse to buy products produced by a racially diverse workforce. a firm pays workers different wages based on irrelevant factors. customers refuse to buy products they believe to be of poor quality.

Grady and Hedy do business as Island Tours. For federal income tax purposes, Island Tours would be treated as an aggregate of the individual partners. a. a natural person. b. an entity. c. a non-existent party.

Interest groups ___. Are most often set up by or work for elites and corporations Work to influence laws and policies Work to influence court rulings All of these answers

What if the tile work had proceeded as contracted and looked good, but STR refused to pay, saying it didn't meet their personal satisfaction (even though the contract didn't mention this option). Could STR refuse to pay?

You want to create a slide that lists the pros and cons of using cloud storage as part of your presentation on business technology. Which pre-set layout would you want to use? A. Content with caption B. Title only C.

Two or more products are produced using limited resources. The firm would like to determine how many units of each product it should produce to maximize overall profit given its limited resources.

1. Calculate owners' equity. Doughnut Company shows $130,000 worth of assets on its December 31, 2009, balance sheet. If total liabilities are $55,800, what is the amount of owners' equity?