Skylark sodas has been a market leader in the soft drink industry for several decades. however, itsmarket research shows that consumer tastes have begun to shift to sugar-free flavored seltzerwaters, a product that skylark is capable of producing with minimal changes to its facilities andproduction processes. based on your knowledge of the core competence-market matrix, whichdiversification strategy should skylark pursue?
- leverage existing core competencies to improve current market position.
- build new core competencies to protect and extend current market position.
- redeploy and recombine existing core competencies to compete in markets of the future.
- build new core competencies to create and compete in markets of the future.

Your father's employer was just acquired, and he was given a severance payment of $375,000, which he invested at a 7.5% annual rate. he now plans to retire, and he wants to withdraw $35,000 at the end of each year, starting at the end of this year. how many years will it take to exhaust his funds, i.e., run the account down to zero? a. 22.50 b. 23.63 c. 24.81 d. 26.05 e. 27.35

Acompany has two products: standard and deluxe. the company expects to produce 36,375 standard units and 62,240 deluxe units. it uses activity-based costing and has prepared the following analysis showing budgeted cost and cost driver activity for each of its three activity cost pools.budgeted activity of cost driver activity cost pool budgeted cost standard deluxe activity 1 $ 93,000 2,500 5,250 activity 2 $ 92,000 4,500 5,500 activity 3 $ 87,000 3,000 2,800 what is the overhead cost per unit for the standard units? what is the overhead cost per unit for the deluxe units? (round activity rate and cost per unit answers to 2 decimal places.)activity expected costs expected activity driver activity rate1 93,000 2 92,000 3 87,000 standard activity activity driver activity rate allocated costs1 2 3

Zendor company wants to have $200,000 available in august 2021 to make an equipment purchase. to be able to have this amount available, zendor will make equal annual deposits in an investment account earning 12% annually in june 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021. what is the dollar amount that must be deposited each of those years to achieve this objective?