Jeff's Stereos is expanding its product offerings which includes increasing the floor inventory by $150,000, increasing accounts receivable by $35,000, and increasing its debt to suppliers by $75,000. The company will also spend $200,000 for a building contractor to expand the size of the showroom. What is the amount of the project’s initial cash flow?

Which of the following is not a characteristic of enterprise applications that cause challenges in implementation? a. they introduce "switching costs," making the firm dependent on the vendor. b. they cause integration difficulties as every vendor uses different data and processes. c. they are complex and time consuming to implement. d. they support "best practices" for each business process and function. e. they require sweeping changes to business processes to work with the software.