Tom, the manager of SSSM has been accused of forcing Emma, one of the employees to have an Intimate relationship with him. He also accepts kickbacks from their business partners. SSSM has
discovered that some small businesses are reproducing their CDs and sell them at lower prices. SSSM
wants to use the Labour Relations Act as a guide on how to retrench some of their employees.
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1.1.1
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Identify ONE challenge of EACH business environment from the case study
above.
Use the table below as a guide to answer question 1.1.1
CHALLENGE
BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS
-1.2
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Classy EACH challenge identified in QUESTION 1 1 1 according to features of
the Business Environments.
Use the table below as a guide to answer question 1.1.2
CHALLENGE
FEATURES OF BUSINESS
ENVIROMNENT​

Jimmy owns an ice cream parlor. he designs a schedule for the different tasks the employees have to perform in order to prevent monotony at work. according to the schedule, if an employee makes waffle cones on a day, he serves ice creams the next day and clears the tables on the day after that. jimmy is using the approach at his ice cream parlor.

1. list five staple convenience goods that you or your household buys on a regular basis. (you do not need to use complete sentences. 2.5 points) 2. list three impulse convenience goods that you or someone you know has purchased. (you do not need to use complete sentences. 2.5 points) 3. describe a shopping good that you or someone you know purchased. what kind of research did you or that person do before buying the product? (1-5 sentences. 3.0 points) 4. choose an example of a company you could start, and decide which business structure would make the most sense for that type of company (sole proprietorship, partnership, llc, c corporation, s corporation, or nonprofit corporation). explain why this structure would be good for this type of company. give at least 3 reasons. (3-6 sentences. 6.0 points) 5. if you were starting a new business, describe at least three departments to the company that you would need right away. why are these departments so important? (1-5 sentences. 3.0 points) 6. describe a product that you think has saturated its market. what makes you think it has saturated its market? (1-5 sentences. 3.0 points)

Retirement investment advisors, inc., has just offered you an annual interest rate of 4.4 percent until you retire in 40 years. you believe that interest rates will increase over the next year and you would be offered 5 percent per year one year from today. if you plan to deposit $13,000 into the account either this year or next year, how much more will you have when you retire if you wait one year to make your deposit?