The stronger the collective impact of competitive pressures associated with the five competitive forces,

1. the stronger are the industry's driving forces.
2. the greater number of companies that can achieve a competitive advantage via differentiation.
3. the fewer companies that can achieve a competitive advantage via anything other than being the industry's low-cost leader.
4. the larger the number of competitive advantage opportunities for industry members.
5. the greater the number of industry key success factors.

Carlos would like to start saving for his son’s college expenses. which type of savings account should carlos open? ida money market 529 plan basic savings account

You are a manager at asda. you have been given the demand data for the past 10 weeks for swim rings for children. you decide to run multiple types of forecasting methods on the data to see which gives you the best forecast. if you were to use exponential smoothing with alpha =.8, what would be your forecast for week 22? (the forecast for week 21 was 1277.) week demand 12 1317 13 1307 14 1261 15 1258 16 1267 17 1256 18 1268 19 1277 20 1277 21 1297

Garfield corporation is considering building a new plant in canada. it predicts sales at the new plant to be 50,000 units at $5.00/unit. below is a listing of estimated expenses. category total annual expenses % of annual expense that are fixed materials $50,000 10% labor $90,000 20% overhead $40,000 30% marketing/admin $20,000 50% a canadian firm was contracted to sell the product and will receive a commission of 10% of the sales price. no u.s. home office expenses will be allocated to the new facility. the contribution margin ratio for garfield corporation is