Astrategy can be best defined as a plan, used by international companies, that involves customizing products, promotion, and distribution according to cultural, technological, regional, and national differences.
a. global
b. standardization
c. normalization
d. multinational
e. domestic

Palmer frosted flakes company offers its customers a pottery cereal bowl if they send in 3 boxtops from palmer frosted flakes boxes and $1. the company estimates that 60% of the boxtops will be redeemed. in 2012, the company sold 675,000 boxes of frosted flakes and customers redeemed 330,000 boxtops receiving 110,000 bowls. if the bowls cost palmer company $3 each, how much liability for outstanding premiums should be recorded at the end of 2012?

Miller mfg. is analyzing a proposed project. the company expects to sell 14,300 units, plus or minus 3 percent. the expected variable cost per unit is $15 and the expected fixed cost is $35,000. the fixed and variable cost estimates are considered accurate within a plus or minus 3 percent range. the depreciation expense is $32,000. the tax rate is 34 percent. the sale price is estimated at $19 a unit, give or take 3 percent. what is the net income under the worst case scenario?

The wall street journal reported that over a recent five-month period, a downturn in the economy has caused endowments to decline 23%. what is the estimate of the dollar amount of the decline in the total endowments held by these 10 universities (to the nearest billion)?