Steve recommends that employees should be compensated according to their competencies, rather than their designations. employees should be financially rewarded when they gain more knowledge and learn new processes that are relevant to the job, even if the employee is at a lower level. this implies that steve favors a
a. variable pay system
b. fixed pay system
c. profit-based pay system
d. skill-based pay system

"in my opinion, we ought to stop making our own drums and accept that outside supplier's offer," said wim niewindt, managing director of antilles refining, n.v., of aruba. "at a price of $21 per drum, we would be paying $4.70 less than it costs us to manufacture the drums in our own plant. since we use 70,000 drums a year, that would be an annual cost savings of $329,000." antilles refining's current cost to manufacture one drum is given below (based on 70,000 drums per year):

Conor is 21 years old and just started working after college. he has opened a retirement account that pays 2.5% interest compounded monthly. he plans on making monthly deposits of $200. how much will he have in the account when he reaches 591 years of age?

The food services division of cedar river amusement park inc. is studying the amount families who visit the amusement park spend per day on food and drink. a sample of 40 families who visited the park yesterday revealed they spent the following amounts: see worksheet 1 for data and answer the following questions: a. organize the data into a frequency distribution, using seven classes and 15 as the lower limit of the first class. what class interval did you select? b. what percent of families spent less than $45? c. what percent of families spent $55 or more? d. how many families spent from $65 to 74.99?