What is NOT a tax issue that multinational corporations (MNCs) face?
a. Corporate income tax
b. Sales tax
c. Payroll tax
d. Property tax
e. Culture tax
Answer: E
Global Business
- What can investors who want to compare one company's profit margin to another company's profit margin utilize?
- What is the goal of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB)?
- Which of the following best illustrates a function of generally accepted accounting principles?
- Which source of funds to financing international trade and investment is the International Monetary Fund (IMF) a part of?
- How do options contracts hedge exchange rate risk?
- What are two short-term effects of currency movement?
- A successful shoe manufacturer has long been subcontracting production of their shoes to countries such as Vietnam. Which of the following concepts was likely considered when selecting production in this country?
- What is most likely to happen if a computer company decided to own and operate its own fleet of trucks instead of using shipping companies to deliver its computers?
- Why many companies outsource?
- What should a smart company do regarding customer complaints to improve the company's customer service in the future?
- What are international pricing objectives that keep competitors out of a foreign market with low prices?
- Which marketing method uses contests and sweepstakes as the most widely-used promotional technique in foreign markets?
- Which appropriate set of steps should companies follow when developing new products for overseas markets?
- How are standardization strategies defined?
- What is one factor that distinguishes market intelligence systems from marketing research?
- Which issues was discussed as a concern during the establishment of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)?
- Which issues are associated with expatriate compensation?
- What is needed when a U.S. company sends an employee to work in a foreign country for several years?
- What is NOT an issue for a business considering outsourcing and offshoring?
- What is the name for an organizational structure in which people are grouped simultaneously by function and by divisions?
- Which issue can result from creating international divisions in global business?
- What will an organization structure which inhibits people from clearly knowing if they have decision making authority most likely to do?
- What are stateless corporations?
- Smalltown Times newspaper has a norm of "highest quality in journalism." In this context, the newspaper's reporters don't require close supervision to do great journalistic work. What is this norm an example of?