Choose the preferred sentence from each pair and justify your choice.

Some 150 million customers a month visit Amazon and the company passes through $160 billion in sales via its global supply chann

sdas [7]

Answer with Explanation:

Amazon is fastest growing company in the world which has crossed 2 billion customer visits. It has also increased the worth of the company to $1.14 trillions. The supply chain management is where the strengths of the company lies and nobody can match the pricing strategy, quality management and other significant factors that are included in the supply chain management to ensure that the customer is having what they are paying for.

Supply chain management process includes the key partners which includes their suppliers, partners, clients and customers as well who play important roles in the supply chain process by coordinating, integrating systems with each other and are involved in the transaction-al process.

The customers are the one who interact fewer than partners, suppliers, clients, etc because all they do is order a particular product. This is the first interaction of the customer with Amazon and the last interaction is when the customer received the order. So this means they are less interacting party in this process.

Suppliers are continuously contacted and informed about the pricing, supply chain issues, etc so that the company is able to deliver its customers what they are desiring. Supply chain partners also in the process of interacting with Amazon as they have to move products from supplier to the customer. These partners are highly interacted, possess integrating systems and of transaction-al importance to the company.

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2 years ago

A speed boat bought for $13,000 depreciates at 10% per annum compounded continuously. What is its value after 7 years? Round the

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Answer:

$3,900

Explanation:

A speed boat bought for $13,000 depreciates at 10% per annum compounded continuously. What is its value after 7 years?

Round the answer to nearest dollar.

Amount of depreciation per annum = 13,000 x 10% = $1,300

Amount of depreciation in 7 years = 1,300 x 7 = $9,100

Value of Speed boat after 7 years = 13,000 - 9,100 = $3,900

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2 years ago

Country A has an absolute advantage over Country B in the production of both soybeans and corn. Explain a scenario in which both

Genrish500 [490]

This is a key idea with international trade. This involves what is known as comparative advantage.
let's say country A can produce a ton of soybeans in 4 hours and a ton of corn in 2 hours. While country B can produce a ton of soybeans in 15 hours and a ton of corn in 5 hours.
Looking at this set up you can see that country A can produce both corn and soybeans faster, so they have an absolute advantage in both!
However what trade is based on is opportunity cost. So if we think about how much corn country A has to give up to produce soybeans, they have to divert a total of 4 hours from corn to soy beans to produce one ton of soy beans. That 4 hours could be used to produce 2 tons of corn (since 2 hours for 1 ton and we're taking away 4 hours!). So opportunity cost of soybeans in country A is 2 corn.
In country B they would need a total of 15 hours to produce one extra ton of soybeans, but those 15 hours could instead be used to produce 3 tons of corn (5 hours per ton and we're stealing 15 total hours). That means country B's opportunity cost is 3 corn.
Since A has a lower opportunity cost in produce soybeans they will specialize and B will specialize in corn.

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2 years ago

A company has inventory that cost $50,000. Its scrap value is $65,000. The inventory could be sold for $150,000 if manufactured

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Answer:

It is more profitable to continue processing.

Explanation:

Giving the following information:

A company has inventory that cost $50,000. Its scrap value is $65,000. The inventory could be sold for $150,000 if manufactured further at an additional cost of $80,000.

Sell for scrap= 65,000 - 50,000= 15,000

Continue processing= 150,000 - 80,000 - 50,000= 20,000

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2 years ago

Finance, or financial management, requires the knowledge and precise use of the language of the field. Match the terms relating

Ierofanga [76]

Answer:

1. Time value of money.

2. Future value.

3. Amortized loan.

4. Annual percentage rate.

5. Annuity due.

6. Amortization schedule.

7. Discounting.

8. Opportunity cost of funds.

9. Perpetuity.

10. Ordinary annuity.

11. A

Explanation:

1. Time value of money: concept that maintains that the owner of a cash flow will value it differently, depending on when it occur.

2. Future value: the amount to which an individual cash flow or series of cash payments or receipt will grow over a period of time when earning interest at a given rate of interest.

3. Amortized loan: a type of security that is frequently used in mortgages and requires that the loan payment contain both interest and loan principal.

4. Annual percentage rate: an interest rate that reflects the return required by a lender and paid by a borrower, expressed as a percentage of the principal borrowed.

5. Annuity due: A series of equal cash flows that occur at the end of each of the equally rate spaced intervals (such as daily, monthly, quarterly, and so on)

6. Amortization schedule: a table that reports the results of the disaggregation of each payment on an amortized loan, such as a mortgage, into its interest and loan repayment components.

7. Discounting: a process that involves calculating the current value of a future cash flow or series of cash flows based on a certain interest rate.

8. Opportunity cost of funds: a rate that represents the return on an investor's best available alternative investment of equal risk.

9. Perpetuity: a series of equal (constant) cash flows (receipts or payments) that are schedule expected to continue forever.

10. Ordinary annuity: a series of equal cash flows that occur at the beginning of each of the equally spaced intervals (such as daily, monthly, quarterly, and so on).

11. PMT x (1-(1/ (1 + r)/r) x (1 +r): an equation that can be used to solve for the present value of an annuity due. It is known as Present Value of an Annuity.

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2 years ago