Political decision making tends to be biased toward the adoption of programs that have current costs and future benefits that are both easily observable. future costs that are difficult to identify and current benefits that are easily observable. future costs and future benefits that are both difficult to identify. current costs that are easily observable and future benefits that are difficult to identify.

Organizational portfolio plan, the final phase of the strategic planning process, involves? a. identifying strategic business units (sbus) and establishing methods to determine how resources should be allocated among the various sbus. b. designing marketing mix strategies c. setting organizational objectives d. creating organizational strategies

The sec has historically raised questions regarding the independence of firms that derive a significant portion of their total revenues from one audit client or group of clients because the sec staff believes this situation causes cpa firms to

Suppose that a government that is skeptical of efforts to regulate prices charged by private companies is nevertheless concerned that an electric utility company is taking advantage of consumers with unfair pricing policies. which of the following policy options might most effectively enable the government to achieve its objectives in this situation? do nothing to all. turn the company into a public enterprise. use antitrust laws to increase competition. regulate the firm's pricing behavior.