Sam, the owner of a small company, learned that a competitor was planning to spend $150,000 on promotion in the next financial year.

as soon as he learned this, sam called his finance manager and said, "i want to spend $150,000 on promotion next year."

in this case, which method of promotional budgeting does sam use?

a) the objective-and-task method
b) the competitive-parity method
c) the percentage-of-sales method
d) the affordable method
e) the pull-push method

Caleb construction (cc) incurs supervisor salaries expense in the construction of homes. if cc manufactures 100 homes in a year, fixed supervisor salaries will be $400,000. with the current construction supervisors, cc's productive capacity is 150 homes in a year. however, if cc is contracts to build more than 150 homes per year, it will need to hire additional supervisors, which are hired as full-time rather than temporary employees. cc's productive capacity would then become 200 homes per year, and salaries expense would increase to $470,000. how would cc’s salaries expense be properly classified? fixed variable mixed stepped curvilinear