Imagine you manage a bookstore. The store sells both fiction and nonfiction titles, but because your store is located in a beachside town, it has a very large selection of beach and
seathemed books. For instance, it carries a number of nonfiction books on fishing, surfing, and
sailing and a number of fiction books where the setting takes place at the beach or at sea.
Back when the store first opened in 1980, the owners set everything up to be tracked and
managed by pen and paper. But now, you've just set up a new system that will track everything
electronically, Employees will no longer have to write out receipts by hand, nor will you have to
track inventory or finances with paper. Furthermore, you now have a business website and hope
to start selling e-readers in the near future,
a) How does specialization play a role at the bookstore? (5 points)

Companies in the u.s. car rental market vary greatly in terms of the size of the fleet, the number of locations, and annual revenue. in 2011 hertz had 320,000 cars in service and annual revenue of approximately $4.2 billion. the following data show the number of cars in service (1000s) and the annual revenue ($ millions) for six smaller car rental companies (auto rental news website, august 7, 2012). excel file: data14-09.xls if required, enter negative values as negative numbers. a. select a scatter diagram with the number of cars in service as the independent variable. b. what does the scatter diagram developed in part (a) indicate about the relationship between the two variables? c. use the least squares method to develop the estimated regression equation (to 3 decimals). ŷ = + x d. for every additional car placed in service, estimate how much annual revenue will change. by $ e. fox rent a car has 11,000 cars in service. use the estimated regression equation developed in part (c) to predict annual revenue for fox rent a car. round your answer to nearest whole value. $ million hide feedback partially correct

Kendrick is leaving his current position at a company, and charlize is taking over. kendrick set up his powerpoint for easy access for himself. charlize needs to work in the program that is easy for her to use. charlize should reset advanced options

Adrawback of short-term contracting as an alternative to making a component in-house is thata. it is the most-integrated alternative to performing an activity so the principal company has no control over the agent. b. the supplying firm has no incentive to make any transaction-specific investments to increase performance or quality. c. it fails to allow a long planning period that individual market transactions provide. d. the buying firm cannot demand lower prices due to the lack of a competitive bidding process.