Refer to the Scenario Below to Answer the Following Questions

question 142

Multiple Choice

Refer to the scenario below to answer the following questions.
Clubhouse Gourmet -A- (Scenario)
Imagine that you are the president of Clubhouse Gourmet, a successful chain of fast-food restaurants with 60 locations across Canada. The success you have experienced in the last five years has you considering various options about what to do next with the business. Should you continue to expand the business at the current rate? Or perhaps open new and different restaurants? What should you do?
-If you decided to purchase a chain of five home furnishing stores because it was a good investment, this would be considered which strategy?

• A) horizontal integration
• B) unrelated differentiation
• C) related diversification
• D) unrelated diversification
• E) vertical integration

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Definitions:

Net Income

The total earnings of a company after deducting all expenses, taxes, and losses, indicating the company's profitability.

Income Statement

A financial statement that reports a company's financial performance over a specific accounting period, including revenues, expenses, and net income or loss.

Straight-Line Depreciation

A method of allocating the cost of a tangible asset over its useful life evenly.

Depreciation

Depreciation is the systematic allocation of the depreciable amount of an asset over its useful life.