Brenda, a self-employed taxpayer, travels from chicago to barcelona (spain) on business. she is gone 10 days (including 2 days of travel) during which time she spends 5 days conducting business and 3 days sightseeing. her expenses are $1,500 (airfare), $200 per day (meals), and $400 per night (lodging). because brenda stayed with relatives while sightseeing, she only paid for 5 nights of lodging. compute brenda's deductions for the following expenses.

Visburg concrete company pours concrete slabs for single-family dwellings. lancing construction company, which operates outside visburg's normal sales territory, asks visburg to pour 40 slabs for lancing's new development of homes. visburg has the capacity to build 300 slabs and is presently working on 250 of them. lancing is willing to pay only $3, 300 per slab. visburg estimates the cost of a typical job to include unit-level materials, $1, 440: unit-level labor, $720: and an allocated portion of facility-level overhead, $1, 200. required calculate the contribution to profit from the special order. should visburg accept or reject the special order to pour 40 slabs for $3, 300 each?

How does the economy of cuba differ from the economy of north korea? in north korea, the government’s control of the economy has begun to loosen. in cuba, the government maintains a tight hold over the economy. in cuba, the government’s control of the economy has begun to loosen. in north korea, the government maintains a tight hold over the economy. in north korea, there is economic uncertainty in exchange for individual choice. in cuba, there is economic security in exchange for government control. in cuba, there is economic uncertainty in exchange for individual choice. in north korea, there is economic security in exchange for government control.\

Is exploiting a distinctive competence or improving efficiency for competitive advantage. (a) cooptation (b) coalition (c) competitive intelligence (d) competitive aggression (e) smoothing