Nations belonging to a common currency

A) lose the ability to maintain competitiveness by making external adjustments to their current account balances.
B) reduce their exchange-rate risk and costs of currency conversion.
C) realize all of these things.
D) sacrifice independent monetary policy.

(Ignore income taxes in this problem.) A company is considering buying a machine that costs $500,000, has a useful life of ten years, and is depreciated over its useful life by the straight-line method.The salvage value of the machine at the end of ten years will be $40,000.This machine will replace an old machine that is fully depreciated; the old machine has a salvage value of $75,000 now.If the simple rate of return of this investment is 12.7%, then the anticipated annual incremental net operating income from this machine for each of the next ten years is:

A) $100,000
B) $63,825
C) $53,975
D) $46,380

Feedback in coaching should be:

A) on specific areas which need improvement.
B) overrated and exaggerated.
C) confined to the first coaching session.
D) avoided unless requested.

Which of the following is true regarding the ability of persons suffering from a mental illness to enter into a binding contract?

A) Persons suffering from a mental illness never have capacity to enter into a binding contract.
B) Persons suffering from a mental illness have full capacity to enter into a binding contract,so long as they do not present a danger to themselves or others.
C) Persons suffering from a mental illness have full capacity to enter into a binding contract,so long as they inform the other party that they are either in,or in the process of seeking,professional treatment.
D) Persons suffering from a mental illness may have full,limited,or no legal capacity to enter into a binding contract,depending on the nature and extent of their mental deficiency.
E) Persons who suffer from a mental illness always have full capacity to enter into a binding contract.

ISO certification requires companies to adopt quality benchmarks and then maintain them with strict conformity to quality that strongly discourages change or refinement.

Maslow's need hierarchy suggests that:

A) people progress up the hierarchy as they successively gratify each level of need.
B) people with a high need for achievement seek performance excellence.
C) it is more crucial to gratify the needs at the highest level and then the ones below it.
D) the lowest level of needs represents the external incentives of employees.

Polartic relies on its ______________ to remain competitive in its markets.

A) ability to compete with low-cost labor in other countries
B) knowledge resources and research capabilities
C) prime market location
D) lower costs due to outsourcing
E) All of the above