Jason West, owner of the XL Cleaning, LLC, began his business in 2012. Jason's primary focus had been on cleaning offices for large corporations, but in recent months, Jason has seen a decline in demand for cleaning services. Surprisingly, the competitive environment appears relatively stable with no new major competitors. As Jason thought about his situation, he realized that he needed to better understand how customers assess service quality and what they were looking for in a superior cleaning service. Jason developed a detailed research plan. First, he gathered his competitors' information -- primarily through brochures, browsing their websites, as well as making some phone calls -- to fund out exactly what the competition offered as part of their cleaning services. In addition, Jason obtained an updated list of 423 local companies and their addresses from the Chamber of Commerce in his area. Although this list contains 423 local company names, Jason has decided to survey 100 of them. Jason gathered information about the competing firms from brochures, phone calls, and the Internet. Obtaining this type of information is an example of

The beach dude (bd) employs a legion of current and former surfers as salespeople who push its surfing-oriented products to various customers (usually retail outlets). this case describes bd's sales and collection process. each bd salesperson works with a specific group of customers throughout the year. in fact, they often surf with their customers to try out the latest surf gear. the bd salespeople act laid-back, but they work hard for their sales. each sale often involves hours of surfing with their customers while the customers sample all the latest surf wear. because bd makes the best surfing products, the customers look forward to the visits from the bd salespeople. and they often buy a lot of gear. each sale is identified by a unique invoice number and usually involves many different products. customers pay for each sale in full within 30 days, but they can combine payments for multiple sales. bd manages its clothing inventory by item (e. g., xl bd surfer logo t-shirts), identified by product number, but it also classifies the items by clothing line (the lines are differentiated by price points as well as the intended use of the clothing, e. g., surfing products, casual wear, . draw a uml class diagram that describes the beach dudes sales and collection process. b. using microsoft access, implement a relational database from your uml class diagram. identify at least three fields per table. c. describe how you would use the relational database to determine the beach dude’s accounts receivable.

(a) what was the opportunity cost of non-gm food for many buyers before 2008? (b) why did they prefer the alternative? (c) what was the opportunity cost in 2008? (d) why did it change?

Which of the following is one disadvantage of renting a place to live compared to buying a home? a. tenants have to pay for all repairs to the building. b. the landlord covers the expenses of maintaining the property. c. residents can't alter their living space without permission. d. rent is generally more than monthly mortgage payments.