Harry Howard, a successful real estate broker, has established his own real estate company in western Pennsylvania. He has on-the-job experience working at a real estate company where he had a whole staff supporting brokers' work. Now on his own, with two secretaries, Harry is building his dream of owning and growing his own business. He wants to mainly focus on middle-to-upper-income homeowners and is exploring what type of promotional material he needs to have. Which of the following would be the fastest way for Harry to build his client base? A. Word-of-mouth
B. Full-scale advertising
C. Personal selling
D. Sales promotion

The treasurer for pittsburgh iron works wishes to use financial futures to hedge her interest rate exposure. she will sell five treasury futures contracts at $139,000 per contract. it is july and the contracts must be closed out in december of this year. long-term interest rates are currently 7.30 percent. if they increase to 9.50 percent, assume the value of the contracts will go down by 20 percent. also if interest rates do increase by 2.2 percent, assume the firm will have additional interest expense on its business loans and other commitments of $149,000. this expense, of course, will be separate from the futures contracts. a. what will be the profit or loss on the futures contract if interest rates increase to 9.50 percent by december when the contract is closed out

Sean lives in dallas and runs a business that sells boats. in an average year, he receives $722,000 from selling boats. of this sales revenue, he must pay the manufacturer a wholesale cost of $422,000; he also pays wages and utility bills totaling $268,000. he owns his showroom; if he chooses to rent it out, he will receive $2,000 in rent per year. assume that the value of this showroom does not depreciate over the year. also, if sean does not operate this boat business, he can work as a paralegal, receive an annual salary of $21,000 with no additional monetary costs, and rent out his showroom at the $2,000 per year rate. no other costs are incurred in running this boat business.identify each of sean's costs in the following table as either an implicit cost or an explicit cost of selling boats.implicit costexplicit costthe wages and utility bills that sean pays the rental income sean could receive if he chose to rent out his showroom the salary sean could earn if he worked as a paralegal the wholesale cost for the boats that sean pays the

When a large marketing company contracts with a payroll service company to process employee checks for them, they are a. diversifying the workforce b. outsourcing c. telecommuting d. completing the business cycle select the best answer from the choices provided