12-16 balanced scorecard. ridgecrest electric manufactures electric motors. it competes and plansto grow by selling high-quality motors at a low price and by delivering them to customers quickly afterreceiving customers’ orders. there are many other manufacturers who produce similar motors. ridgecrestbelieves that continuously improving its manufacturing processes and having satisfied employees arecritical to implementing its strategy in 2013.1. is ridgecrest’s 2013 strategy one of product differentiation or cost leadership? explain briefly.2. kearney corporation, a competitor of ridgecrest, manufactures electric motors with more sizes andfeatures than ridgecrest at a higher price. kearney’s motors are of high quality but require more time toproduce and so have longer delivery times. draw a simple customer preference map as in exhibit 12-1for ridgecrest and kearney using the attributes of price, delivery time, quality, and design features.3. draw a strategy map as in exhibit 12-2 with two strategic objectives you would expect to see undereach balanced scorecard perspective.4. for each strategic objective indicate a measure you would expect to see in ridgecrest’s balancedscorecard for 2013.

During the first month of operations, martinson services, inc., completed the following transactions: jan 2 martinson services received $65,000 cash and issued common stock to the stockholders. 3 purchased supplies, $1,000, and equipment, $12,000, on account. 4 performed services for a customer and received cash, $5,500. 7 paid cash to acquire land, $39,000. 11 performed services for a customer and billed the customer, $4,100. martinson expects to collect within one month 16 paid for the equipment purchased january 3 on account. 17 paid for newspaper advertising, $600. 18 received partial payment from customer on account, $2,000. 22 paid the water and electricity bills, $430. 29 received $2,600 cash for servicing the heating unit of a customer. 31 paid employee salary, $2,900. 31 declared and paid dividends of $1,800. requirements 1. record each transaction in the journal. key each transaction by date. explanations are not required. 2. post the transactions to the t-accounts, using transaction dates as posting references. label the ending balance of each account bal, as shown in the chapter. 3. prepare the trial balance of martinson services, inc., at january 31 of the current year. 4. mark martinson, the manager, asks you how much in total resources the business has to work with, how much it owes, and whether january was profitable (and by how much)?

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Based on what you learned about time management which of these statements are true