Five trends in the past decade have significantly influenced the landscape of global marketing. one of them is

a. a decrease in most countries' gdps and a renewal of nationalism.
b. a more aggressive attitude toward initiating international tariffs and quota systems.
c. an increase in economic protectionism and a decline free trade.
d. an increase in most countries' gdps coupled with an increased degree of consumer ethnocentrism.
e. the growing prevalence of economic espionage.

On january 15, the end of the first biweekly pay period of the year, north company’s payroll register showed that its employees earned $32,000 of sales salaries. withholdings from the employees’ salaries include fica social security taxes at the rate of 6.2%, fica medicare taxes at the rate of 1.45%, $3,000 of federal income taxes, $772 of medical insurance deductions, and $260 of union dues. no employee earned > $7,000 in this first period. prepare the journal entry to record north company’s january 15 (employee) payroll expenses and liabilities.

Take it all away has a cost of equity of 11.11 percent, a pretax cost of debt of 5.36 percent, and a tax rate of 40 percent. the company's capital structure consists of 67 percent debt on a book value basis, but debt is 33 percent of the company's value on a market value basis. what is the company's wacc

Although appealing to more refined tastes, art as a collectible has not always performed so profitably. during 2003, an auction house sold a sculpture at auction for a price of $10,211,500. unfortunately for the previous owner, he had purchased it in 2000 at a price of $12,177,500. what was his annual rate of return on this sculpture? (a negative answer should be indicated by a minus sign. do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as