15 POINTS! BUSINESS QUESTION! PLEASE HELP!!! Businesses strive to be the leader in their industry. For this reason, they look for strategies that will boost their sales and keep customers coming back. One strategy is to use information and communication systems to manage data, reduce workload, and assist with task management. As with many things, there are both risks and rewards to using information and communication systems.
Instructions:
1. Conduct an Internet search to identify three common business uses of information and communication systems.
2. For each business use, identify two advantages and two disadvantages of each.
3. Complete the graphic organizer below.
4. Submit your completed graphic organizer to your instructor.

Which type of data is generally stored in different file formats, such as text files, spreadsheets, and so on?

Verizon communications, inc., provides the following footnote relating to its leasing activities in its 10-k report. the aggregate minimum rental commitments under noncancelable leases for the periods shown at december 31, 2010, are as follows: years (dollars in millions) capital leases operatingleases 2011 $97 $1,898 2012 74 1,720 2013 70 1,471 2014 54 1,255 2015 42 1,012 thereafter 81 5,277 total minimum 418 $ 12,633 rental commitments less interest and (86) executory costs present value of 332 minimum lease payments less current (75) installments long-term obligation $257 at december 31, 2010 (a) confirm that verizon capitalized its capital leases using a rate of 7.4 %. (b) compute the present value of verizon's operating leases, assuming an 7.4% discount rate and rounding the remaining lease term to 3 decimal places. (use a financial calculator or excel to compute. do not round until your final answers. round each answer to the nearest whole number.)

Which of the following best explains why large companies pay less for goods from wholesalers? a. large companies are able to pay for the goods they purchase in cash. b. large companies are able to increase the efficiency of wholesale production. c. large companies can buy all or most of a wholesaler's stock. d. large companies have better-paid employees who are better negotiators.