Team Instructions: Provide Students with Copies of Real Merchandising Companies

question 63

Essay

Team instructions: Provide students with copies of real merchandising companies' annual reports,or give students the Web addresses of real merchandising companies and ask them to print out the annual reports.
Divide the class into teams of three or four people.All team members should work with the same company's annual report.Give the students time in class to answer the following questions for their company.Each team should turn in only one copy of the answers for grading,along with a copy of the annual report that they used.All team members will receive the same grade.

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