Baldwin's elite product brat has an awareness of 72%. baldwin's brat product manager for the elite segment is determined to have more awareness for brat than andrews' elite product ark. she knows that the first $1m in promotion generates 22% new awareness, the second million adds 23% more and the third million adds another 5%. she also knows one-third of brat's existing awareness is lost every year. assuming that ark's awareness stays the same next year (77%), out of the promotion budgets below, what is the minimum baldwin's elite product manager should spend in promotion to earn more awareness than andrews' ark product?

Any point on a country's production possibilities frontier represents a combination of two goods that an economy:

Profits from using currency options and futures.on july 2, the two-month futures rate of the mexican peso contained a 2 percent discount (unannualized). there was a call option on pesos with an exercise price that was equal to the spot rate. there was also a put option on pesos with an exercise price equal to the spot rate. the premium on each of these options was 3 percent of the spot rate at that time. on september 2, the option expired. go to the oanda.com website (or any site that has foreign exchange rate quotations) and determine the direct quote of the mexican peso. you exercised the option on this date if it was feasible to do so. a. what was your net profit per unit if you had purchased the call option? b. what was your net profit per unit if you had purchased the put option? c. what was your net profit per unit if you had purchased a futures contract on july 2 that had a settlement date of september 2? d. what was your net profit per unit if you sold a futures contract on july 2 that had a settlement date of september 2

As a general rule, when accountants calculate profit they account for explicit costs but usually ignorea. certain outlays of money by the firm.b. implicit costs.c. operating costs.d. fixed costs.