The Profit-Leverage Effect of Supply Savings Means That

question 3

Multiple Choice

The profit-leverage effect of supply savings means that:

• A) a reduction in money tied up in inventory improves profits.
• B) a reduction in purchase spend increases profit more than an equal sales increase.
• C) effective price negotiations with a supplier will lower the supplier's profits.
• D) the buyer gains leverage over suppliers when purchases are standardized.
• E) efficient and effective supply management processes will increase profits.

Understand the effect of sample size on the width of confidence intervals.

Know how to reduce the risk that the confidence interval does not contain the population mean.

Calculate degrees of freedom for various sample sizes.

Differentiate between confidence intervals for means and standard deviations.

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