Describe at least 3 nonprice competition strategies a company could use to convince customers that its product is better than other similar products. why would those strategies matter to customers?

At the end of the year, blossom co. has pretax financial income of $561,000. included in the $561,000 is $73,000 interest income on municipal bonds, $25,000 fine for dumping hazardous waste, and depreciation of $64,400. depreciation for tax purposes is $48,300. compute income taxes payable, assuming the tax rate is 30% for all periods.

Employees at a library check out books to patrons. books have an isbn and a name. the library sometimes has multiple copies of the same book. books have one or more authors. a patron is an individual who has an active (non-expired) library card. for each library card, we store the person's first and last names and their address. for each employee, we store their employee id, current salary, first and last name and their address. we also store the employee id of their current manager. each time we check out a book to a patron we need to store the date of the transaction, the employee who checked out the book to the patron, and the library card of the patron. some employees have library cards. if an employee patron turns in a book late, the fine that they pay is a percentage of their salary. some employees are authors who have library cards—they are allowed to check out as many books as they like.

Parks corporation is considering an investment proposal in which a working capital investment of $10,000 would be required. the investment would provide cash inflows of $2,000 per year for six years. the working capital would be released for use elsewhere when the project is completed. if the company's discount rate is 10%, the investment's net present value is closest to (ignore income taxes) ?