Simon and his managers are discussing the unemployment, inflation, and interest-rate trends that might affect their chain of sandwich shops over the next 12 months and the projected growth in the areas where the stores are located. The managers are studying the forces in their organization's general environment.1. economic
2. technological
3. socio-cultural
4. international
5. political

Standardization is associated with which of the following management orientations? a) ethnocentric orientation b) polycentric orientation c) regiocentric orientation d) geocentric orientation

Your parents have accumulated a $170,000 nest egg. they have been planning to use this money to pay college costs to be incurred by you and your sister, courtney. however, courtney has decided to forgo college and start a nail salon. your parents are giving courtney $20,000 to her get started, and they have decided to take year-end vacations costing $8,000 per year for the next four years. use 8 percent as the appropriate interest rate throughout this problem. use appendix a and appendix d for an approximate answer, but calculate your final answer using the formula and financial calculator methods. a. how much money will your parents have at the end of four years to you with graduate school, which you will start then?

3. describe the purpose of the sec. (1-4 sentences. 2.0 points)