Mustang Auto Parts, Inc. is considering one of two forklift trucks for its assembly plant.

1. Truck A costs $15,000 and requires $3,000 annually in operating expenses. It will have a $5,000 salvage value at the end of its three-year service life.
2. Truck B costs $20,000, but requires only $2,000 annually in operating expenses; its service life is four years, at which time its expected salvage value will be $8,000.

The firm's MARR is 12%. Assuming that the trucks are needed for 12 years and that no significant changes are expected in the future price and functional capacity of each truck, select the most economical truck on the basis of AE analysis.

Asmartphone manufacturing company uses social media to achieve different business objectives. match each social media activity of the company to the objective it the company achieve.

Which of the following best explains the purpose of protectionist trade policies such as tariffs and subsidies? a. they make sure that governments have enough money to pay for fiscal policies. b. they give foreign competitors access to new markets around the world. c. they allow producers to sell their products more cheaply than foreign competitors. d. they enable producers to purchase productive resources from everywhere in the world.

Tony prince is the project manager for the recreation and wellness intranet project. team members include you, a programmer/analyst and aspiring project manager; patrick, a network specialist; nancy, a business analyst; and bonnie, another programmer/analyst. other people are supporting the project from other departments, including yusaff from human resources and cassandra from finance. assume that these are the only people who can be assigned and charged to work on project activities. recall that your schedule and cost goals are to complete the project in six months for under $200,000.task 2identify at least eight milestones for the recreation and wellness intranet project. write a short paper describing each milestone using the smart criteria. discuss how determining these milestones might add activities or tasks to the gantt chart. remember that milestones normally have no duration, so you must have tasks that will lead to completing the milestone.