Consider the accompanying payoff matrix. Column Cruises Offer reduced rates Keep rates high Row Resorts Offer reduced rates 50 for Row 500 for Row 50 for Column 10 for Column Keep rates 10 for Row 300 for Row high 500 for Column 300 for Column If Column Cruises offers reduced rates, and Row Resorts keeps its rates high, then Row Resorts will earn , and Column Cruises will earn .

The amberssen specialty company is a chain of twelve retail stores that sell a variety of imported gift items, gourmet chocolates, cheeses, and wines in the toronto area. amberssen has an is staff of three people who have created a simple but effective information system of networked point-of-sale registers at the stores and a centralized accounting system at the company head- quarters. harry hilman, the head of amberssens is group, has just received the following memo from bill amberssen, sales director (and son of amberssen’s founder). harry—it’s time amberssen specialty launched itself on the internet. many of our competitors are already there, selling to customers without the expense of a retail storefront, and we should be there too. i project that we could double or triple our annual revenues by selling our products on the internet. i’d like to have this ready by - giving, in time for the prime holiday gift-shopping season. bill after pondering this memo for several days, harry scheduled a meeting with bill so that he could clarify bill’s vision of this venture. using the standard con- tent of a system request as your guide, prepare a list of questions that harry needs to have answered about this project.

On coral island in 2012, the labor force is 12,000, the unemployment rate is 10 percent, and the labor force participation rate is 60 percent. during 2013, 200 unemployed people found jobs and the working-age population increased by 1,000. the total number of people in the labor force did not change. the working-age population at the end of 2013 was the unemployment rate at the end of 2013 was round up to the second decimal. the labor force participation rate at the end of 2013 was round up to the second decimal.

On december 31, 2013, coronado company issues 173,000 stock-appreciation rights to its officers entitling them to receive cash for the difference between the market price of its stock and a pre-established price of $10. the fair value of the sars is estimated to be $5 per sar on december 31, 2014; $2 on december 31, 2015; $10 on december 31, 2016; and $8 on december 31, 2017. the service period is 4 years, and the exercise period is 7 years. prepare a schedule that shows the amount of compensation expense allocable to each year affected by the stock-appreciation rights plan.