Individuals and organizations that determine what products and services will be available for sale

A firm that has the ability to control to some degree the price of the product it sells

A common assumption is that creative work proceeds in periods of calm and peace. given the combination of political instability and cultural productivity in renaissance italy, do you think this assumption is valid?

A marketing manager wants to know why her sales are down

Free cash flow valuation You are evaluating the potential purchase of a small business with no debt or preferred stock that is currently generating $41 comma 300 of free cash flow (FCF 0 = $41,300 ).

If you were in the dry-cleaning business, whom would you benchmark for their technological innovations? List companies in related fields that would be inside and outside your industry.

Petra's basis was $50,000 in the PAM Partnership interest just before she received a proportionate nonliquidating distribution consisting of land held for investment (basis of $40,000, fair market value of $60,000) and inventory (basis of $40,000,

Nolte Co. has 4,500,000 shares of common stock outstanding on December 31, 2014. An additional 200,000 shares are issued on April 1, 2015, and 480,000 more on September 1. On October 1, Nolte issued $6,000,000 of 9% convertible bonds.

Your friends own a lawn care business. They own their own equipment and trailers to transport it. Eventually they buy out another local lawn care company and double their customers. This is an example of 1. ending an oligopoly2.

Suppose you currently earn $30,000 a year. you are considering a job that will increase your lifetime earnings by $300,000 but that requires an mba. the job will mean also attending business school for two years at an annual cost of $25,000.

Wickland Company installs a manufacturing machine in its production facility at the beginning of the year at a cost of $154,000. The machine's useful life is estimated to be 5 years, or 370,000 units of product, with a $6,000 salvage value.