Answer:
d. price competition is especially vigorous, buyers have low switching costs, and the majority of industry sales are made to a few, large volume buyers.
Explanation:
Michael Porter specified 4 generic strategies for gaining competitive advantage, which are namely,
1. Cost Focus
2. Differentiation Focus
3. Cost Leadership
4. Differentiation
Cost leadership refers to charging lowest price and attaining cost advantage in the industry.
Differentiation refers to designing products with unique attributes.
Striving to be low cost provider would be most attractive when the buyers have low switching costs i.e it is easier and cheap to switch between products and wherein buyers are large and exercise considerable bargaining power.
Thus, the correct option is (d). price competition is especially vigorous, buyers have low switching costs, and the majority of industry sales are made to a few, large volume buyers.
Kenya invests in stocks, bonds, and mutual funds.
Answer:
3) laissez-faire
Explanation:
Laissez-faire is a French expression that means to let us do, or applied to economics, let the economy self regulate itself. It was not a doctrine developed by Adam Smith, but rather by French economists who supported the idea of no government intervention in the economy.
President Coolidge believed that the government should not interfere with businesses and that businesses themselves were able to create prosperity for the nation.
Answer:
The correct option is C,$500
Explanation:
The amount of interest accrual is the interest on the sum borrowed from October 1 2016 to 31 December 2016,that is 3 months of interest,which is computed below:
Accrued interest =principal*stated interest rate*number of accrued months/12
principal is $25,000
stated interest is 8%
number of accrued months is 3
accrued interest =$25,000*8%*3/12=$500
The accrued interest is to be debited interest expense because it is an increase in expense and credited to interest payable as a liability
