A manufacturer has decided to improve its inventory management by maintaining low inventory levels and waiting to purchase materials until right before they are needed in production. This inventory management technique is called .

Onsider the following subscription behavior information from genie, a web site that provides tools for constructing a family tree (ancestor search). subscriptions cost $9.99 per month, but you are charged for the entire year at the time of purchase. there is a one-year minimum term when you sign up for the service. once purchased, subscriptions are set to renew automatically unless the subscriber cancels them. when a membership renews, it renews for a one-year term and again you are charged for the entire year. there are no variable costs associated with providing this service to an individual customer, but genie does engage in customer relationship activities that they believe will increase customer retention. these customer relationship activities cost genie about $10 per year per customer. based on a sample of 1000 customers that joined genie five years ago, near the time when the company was founded, they were able to determine how many of those customers remained subscribers in the second year, third year etc. based on this information, genie calculated the average annual retention rate to be 20%. genie uses an annual discount rate of 8%. a. last year, genie spent $10,000 placing advertisements on google. genie management believes that these advertisements were responsible for about 300 new subscribers. would you recommend to genie management that they purchase more google ads? b. suppose a newly-introduced loyalty program increases the number of customers that remained to 30%. does this new data change your answer to 9.a? c. do you have any hesitations or concerns about making recommendations to management based on your above estimate of customer lifetime value?

Clara client has just been presented with a standard representation agreement by the law firm of yatz & berger. clara's first language is german. although she speaks and reads everyday english quite well, the legal terms in the contract confuse her. yatz & berger should question 90 options: have someone in the firm, if possible, or a translator from outside of the firm, explain the terms of the contract thoroughly until clara has a full and complete understanding of its terms. advise clara to take the contract home and study it before signing it. have a paralegal explain the most important clauses in the contract to clara in smaller, plain english words. advise clara to sign the contract and take her copy home for study.

When providing the square footage of a property for sale, the salesperson should disclose what?