Mountain dew is a unique beverage that faces no direct competition as a carbonated, uniquely flavored, highly caffeinated beverage. with respect to its competition, it seeks to compete against the market leader—coke. in ad lab 8-a, trout and ries suggest that out of every 100 companies, one should play defense, two should play offense, three should flank and 94 should be guerrillas. defense involves fending off challenges to market share dominance, offense, involves direct attacks on the market leader, and flanking involves capitalizing on a segment no one is paying attention to. in light of these definitions, the ads for mountain dew suggest it is

Wallis company manufactures only one product and uses a standard cost system. the company uses a predetermined plantwide overhead rate that relies on direct labor-hours as the allocation base. all of the company's manufacturing overhead costs are fixed—it does not incur any variable manufacturing overhead costs. the predetermined overhead rate is based on a cost formula that estimated $2,886,000 of fixed manufacturing overhead for an estimated allocation base of 288,600 direct labor-hours. wallis does not maintain any beginning or ending work in process inventory.

Christopher kim, cfa, is a banker with batts brothers, an investment banking firm. kim follows the energy industry and has frequent contact with industry executives. kim is contacted by the ceo of a large oil and gas corporation who wants batts brothers to underwrite a secondary offering of the company's stock. the ceo offers kim the opportunity to fly on his private jet to his ranch in texas for an exotic game hunting expedition if kim's firm can complete the underwriting within 90 days. according to cfa institute standards of conduct, kim: a) may accept the offer as long as he discloses the offer to batts brothers.b) may not accept the offer because it is considered lavish entertainment.c) must obtain written consent from batts brothers before accepting the offer.

Which of the following would classify as a general education requirement