Price and Profit Allocation Decisions Are Usually Best Made

question 43

Multiple Choice

Price and profit allocation decisions are usually best made:

• A) at the subsidiary headquarters.
• B) at the IC headquarters.
• C) cooperatively by both subsidiary and IC headquarters.
• D) at the subsidiary headquarters in the host country with the lowest prices.
• E) none of the above.

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Definitions:

Measures Central Tendency

Statistics that describe the center of a data distribution, including mean, median, and mode.

Mean

The average value of a series of numbers, found by taking the sum of the numbers and dividing this sum by the quantity of numbers in the series.

Median

In a sequence of numbers sorted from lowest to highest, the median represents the number that lies at the midpoint.

Mode

The commonly encountered value within a series of data.