As businesses strive for market expansion, companies add to their sales force, but opt to eliminate sales offices across the nation and internationally. how are these firms able to remotely operate a sales force that contributes toward increasing the bottom line? a. a sensible strategy is to transport sales professionals to the world headquarters on a bi-weekly basis. b. the business strategically moves manufacturing facilities to low-cost areas and allocates more funds toward the sales professionals to meet face-to-face with management. c. the operation is maintained with an advanced mrp system. d. the operation is managed with teleconferencing information technology, and telecommuting.

On january 1, 2017, fisher corporation purchased 40 percent (90,000 shares) of the common stock of bowden, inc. for $980,000 in cash and began to use the equity method for the investment. the price paid represented a $48,000 payment in excess of the book value of fisher's share of bowden's underlying net assets. fisher was willing to make this extra payment because of a recently developed patent held by bowden with a 15-year remaining life. all other assets were considered appropriately valued on bowden's books. bowden declares and pays a $90,000 cash dividend to its stockholders each year on september 15. bowden reported net income of $400,000 in 2017 and $348,000 in 2018. each income figure was earned evenly throughout its respective year. on july 1, 2018, fisher sold 10 percent (22,500 shares) of bowden's outstanding shares for $338,000 in cash. although it sold this interest, fisher maintained the ability to significantly influence bowden's decision-making process. prepare the journal entries for fisher for the years of 2017 and 2018. (if no entry is required for a transaction/event, select "no journal entry required" in the first account field. do not round intermediate calculations. round your final answers to the nearest whole dollar.)

Any point on a country's production possibilities frontier represents a combination of two goods that an economy:

Factors like the unemployment rate, the stock market, global trade, economic policy, and the economic situation of other countries have no influence on the financial status of individuals. true or false