Starbucks Allows Customers in the US to Use Smartphones to Pay

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Starbucks allows customers in the US to use smartphones to pay for their purchases in an effort to drive sales. Starbucks uses a reader in the store to scan a bar code displayed on the customer's smartphone screen. While this use of information resources may be used to gain a strategic advantage, there are possible risks. Match the potentially harmful experience below with the IT risk it represents:

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Definitions:

Monthly Fixed Expense

Costs that do not vary with the level of production or sales in a given period, such as rent or salaries, accruing on a monthly basis.

Margin Of Safety

The difference between actual or projected sales and the break-even point, indicating the buffer against losses.

Break-Even Sales

The amount of revenue that is exactly sufficient to cover both fixed and variable costs, resulting in neither profit nor loss.

Break-Even

The point at which total revenues equal total costs, resulting in no net loss or gain.