Scenario 3: Buying a cell phone plan It’s time to buy a new cell phone plan, and you will be paying for this one yourself. The providers offer a lot of options, and your budget is limited. What financial information do you need? What financial decision-making strategies can you use? (Cost comparison, cost-benefit analysis, calculating future expenses, or budgeting?)

Garrett is an executive vice president at samm hardware. he researches a proposal by a larger company, maximum hardware, to combine the two companies. by analyzing past performance, conducting focus groups, and interviewing maximum employees, garrett concludes that maximum has poor profit margins, sells shoddy merchandise, and treats customers poorly. what actions should garrett and samm hardware take? a. turn down the acquisition offer and prepare to resist a hostile takeover. b. attempt a friendly merger and use managerial hubris to improve results at maximum. c. welcome the acquisition and use knowledge transfer to impart sam hardware's management practices. d. do nothing; the two companies cannot combine without samm hardware's explicit consent.