Explain whether each of the following events represents (i) a change in demand (a shift of the demand curve) or (ii) a movement along the demand curve (a change in the quantity demanded). A store owner finds that customers are willing to pay more for umbrellas on rainy days. When XYZ Mobile, a cellular plan provider, offered reduced rates on data charges, its volume data usage by users increased sharply.

Ancho corp. is an automobile company whose core competency lies in manufacturing petrol- and diesel- based cars. the company realizes that more of its potential customers are switching to electric cars. the r& d department of the company acquires competencies in developing electric cars and launches its first hybrid car, which uses both gas and electricity. in this scenario, ancho is primarilya. leveraging new core competencies to improve current market position. b. redeploying existing core competencies to compete in future markets. c. unlearning existing core competencies to create and compete in markets of the future. d. building new core competencies to protect and extend current market position

Janis owns and operates a store in a country experiencing a high rate of inflation. in order to prevent the value of money in her cash register from falling too quickly, janis sends an employee to the bank four times per day to make deposits in a interest-bearing account that protects the store's revenues from the effects of inflation. this is an example of the (menu costs/ unit of account costs/ shoesleather costs) of inflation. pick one

Which one of the following best describes pro forma financial statements? select one: a. financial statements expressed in a foreign currency b. financial statements where the assets are expressed as a percentage of total assets and costs are expressed as a percentage of sales c. financial statements showing projected values for future time periods d. financial statements expressed in real dollars, given a stated base year e. financial statements where all accounts are expressed as a percentage of last year's values