Volkswagen opened a large plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 2011. Within a few years, VW spurred more than 12,400 direct and indirect jobs in the area. The carmaker generates income of over $600 million there annually and boosts state and local tax revenues by over $50 million a year. A huge expansion was announced in 2016 that would nearly double its operations in Tennessee. This example best illustrates a(n) change that has impacted the people and businesses of Chattanooga.

Precision dyes is analyzing two machines to determine which one it should purchase. the company requires a rate of return of 15 percent and uses straight-line depreciation to a zero book value over the life of its equipment. ignore bonus depreciation. machine a has a cost of $462,000, annual aftertax cash outflows of $46,200, and a four-year life. machine b costs $898,000, has annual aftertax cash outflows of $16,500, and has a seven-year life. whichever machine is purchased will be replaced at the end of its useful life. which machine should the company purchase and how much less is that machine's eac as compared to the other machine's

The simple interest in a loan of $200 at 10 percent interest per year is

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.