An entrepreneur is looking to open a restaurant in a town with only one other restaurant. The incumbent restaurant is very successful with high profits. Which of the following business strategies are most likely to allow the entrepreneur to start a profitable restaurant? Select all that apply.

a. Offer the most popular dish served by the incumbent restaurant.
b. Open the restaurant location near the incumbent restaurant.
c. Use new technology and business practices to cut variable costs lower than the incumbent restaurant.
d. Specialize in a type of cuisine not served by other restaurants in the region.
e. Set prices lower than the incumbent restaurant to capture market share.

Vulcan flyovers offers scenic overflights of mount st. helens, the volcano in washington state that explosively erupted in 1982. data concerning the company’s operations in july appear below: vulcan flyovers operating data for the month ended july 31 actual results flexible budget planning budget flights (q) 56 56 54 revenue ($350.00q) $ 16,500 $ 19,600 $ 18,900 expenses: wages and salaries ($3,300 + $91.00q) 8,354 8,396 8,214 fuel ($31.00q) 1,904 1,736 1,674 airport fees ($870 + $35.00q) 2,730 2,830 2,760 aircraft depreciation ($11.00q) 616 616 594 office expenses ($240 + $1.00q) 464 296 294 total expense 14,068 13,874 13,536 net operating income $ 2,432 $ 5,726 $ 5,364 the company measures its activity in terms of flights. customers can buy individual tickets for overflights or hire an entire plane for an overflight at a discount. required: 1. prepare a flexible budget performance report for july that includes revenue and spending variances and activity variances.