As a professional buyer for a major department store, you have spent the last week entertaining Ms. Sakata, a sales representative from a jewelry supplier in Tokyo. You believe you are offering a good price for pearls, but she seems interested in discussing only the delicious and expensive lunch you just shared.
In this situation, which approach would you take to allow Ms. Sakata to save face?

a) Press the issue and force her to give you a yes or no answer.
b) Ask her why she's more interested in talking about lunch than in talking about pearls.
c) Recognize that she's trying to tell you that she's not satisfied with the price.

Why is it easier for new entrants to get involved in radical innovations when compared to incumbent firms? a. unlike incumbent firms, new entrants do not have to face the high entry barriers, initially. b. new entrants are embedded in an innovation ecosystem, while incumbent firms are not. c. unlike incumbent firms, new entrants do not have formal organizational structures and processes. d. incumbent firms do not have the advantages of network effects that new entrants have.

Almeda products, inc., uses a job-order costing system. the company's inventory balances on april 1, the start of its fiscal year, were as follows:

Johnson company uses the allowance method to account for uncollectible accounts receivable. bad debt expense is established as a percentage of credit sales. for 2018, net credit sales totaled $6,400,000, and the estimated bad debt percentage is 1.40%. the allowance for uncollectible accounts had a credit balance of $61,000 at the beginning of 2018 and $49,500, after adjusting entries, at the end of 2018.required: 1. what is bad debt expense for 2018 as a percent of net credit sales? 2. assume johnson makes no other adjustment of bad debt expense during 2018. determine the amount of accounts receivable written off during 2018.3. if the company uses the direct write-off method, what would bad debt expense be for 2018?