When Deciding on Which New Products to Develop, a Firm

question 59

Multiple Choice

When deciding on which new products to develop, a firm must devote people, time, and money to designing a new product. Because any firm has only limited resources, it

• A) should wait until its competitors develop a similar product before deciding on devoting resources to its own product development.
• B) is not able to develop more than one new product at a time.
• C) must be certain that the product it chooses to develop will be successful or it will not be able to stay in business.
• D) faces a trade-off because resources used to develop one product will not be available to develop another product.

Understand the concepts of debits and credits in the accounting cycle.

Analyze and prepare general journal and T-account entries for business transactions.

Calculate net income by analyzing changes in assets, liabilities, and equity.

Prepare and analyze trial balances and identify errors.

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