<span>A firm determines its profit by subtracting total cost from revenue</span>
Answer:
The correct answer is A.
Explanation:
Giving the following information:
Schrute Farm Sales buys portable generators for $470 and sells them for $720 He pays a sales commission of 5% of sales revenue to his sales staff. Mr. Schrute pays $7,000 a month rent for his store and also pays $1,700 a month to his staff in addition to the commissions. Mr. Schrute sold 500 generators in June.
Revenue= 720*500= $360,000
Cost of goods sold= 470*500= 235,000 (-)
Sales commision= 0.05*360,000= 18,000 (-)
Contribution Margin= 107,000
Rent= 7,000 (-)
Fixed sales comission= 1,700 (-)
Operating income= $98,300
Answer:
A. Implementing a job rotation program
Explanation:
Implementing a job rotation program basically gives a view of the entire business, it cross-train employees and nurtures a future talent for improvement. It can be beneficial to both employer and employee.
Answer:
graciously accept the blame for not making her meaning clear.
Explanation:
In business communication when the message being passed is not clearly understood for one reason or the the other (in this case because of language barrier). The polite action to take is first to graciously accept blame for not passing the message across clearly, then find a solution to the communication gap.
Talking louder to the other party will be the wrong step to take as it will appear rude, so offer an apology which will give a positive environment.
The other options of ending the conversation and asking an Italian business man to explain what you mean in simple terms will be taken as a slight.
Answer:
c. the exaggerated hockey stick
Explanation:
Based on the information provided within the question it can be said that the business plan error that Nan is incurring is the exaggerated hockey stick. In the context a business, "a hockey stick" explains a startups growth as a linear steady growth at launch until it hits a certain tipping point and has a growth explosion. It seems though, that in this scenario Nan is exaggerating the initial growth aspect of the startup as saying that they can capture 40% of the market, which is an extremely high value.
