Scenario #1 You get a weekly allowance of $30 from your parents that is automatically transferred into your checking account. Tomorrow you are going to see a movie with your best friend which you often do. Your movie ticket and snacks cost $22, What is the best payment option for this scenario?

Questions:
Will you use cash, check, Prepaid card, Debit card, Credit card or P2P?
Why did you choose that payment option?
What are other possible payment decisions you can make?

Which of the following best explains cost-push inflation? a. increasing wages for workers drive up the cost of production, forcing producers to charge more to meet their costs. b. consumers demand goods faster than they can be supplied, increasing competition among buyers. c. rising prices for goods and services reduce spending power and cut into consumer demand. d. wages drop so that workers have to spend a higher percentage of income on the cost of necessities.2b2t

20. sinclair company's single product has a selling price of $25 per unit. last year the company reported a profit of $20,000 and variable expenses totaling $180,000. the product has a 40% contribution margin ratio. because of competition, sinclair company will be forced in the current year to reduce its selling price by $2 per unit. how many units must be sold in the current year to earn the same profit as was earned last year? a. 15,000 units b. 12,000 units c. 16,500 units d. 12,960 units

Who is better at multi-tasking? in business, employees are often asked to perform a complex task when their atten-tion is divided (i.e., multi-tasking). human factors (may 2014) published a study designed to determine whether video game players are better than non–video game play-ers at multi-tasking. each in a sample of 60 college stu-dents was classified as a video game player or a non-player. participants entered a street crossing simulator and were asked to cross a busy street at an unsigned intersec-tion. the simulator was designed to have cars traveling at various high rates of speed in both directions. during the crossing, the students also performed a memory task as a distraction. two variables were measured for each student: (1) a street crossing performance score (measured out of 100 points) and (2) a memory task score (measured out of 20 points). the researchers found no differences in either the street crossing performance or memory task score of video game players and non-gamers. “these results,” say the researchers, “suggest that action video game players [and non-gamers] are equally susceptible to the costs of dividing attention in a complex task”