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Transfer.

Some of the risk has been transferred to the insurance company.

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Inability to touch something.

Services are intangible, which may present challenges when specifying / buying.

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The calculation which needs to be done is one hundred thousand (dollars) divided by the contribu-tion per bottle. The contribution per bottle is one dollar minus the variable cost - 25 cents. Thus the contribution is 75 cents. One hundred thousand divided by $0.75 = 133,333. Note the answer is in units - in response to the QUESTION NO: of how many bottles / units must be sold to break even.

For people who feel they have difficulty with calculations, just look at the possible answers. If the contribution is a bit less than a dollar, and the fixed costs are 100,000, we would expect the answer to be a number a little over 100,000 - one of the answers fits the bill, and this is the correct answer. So the QUESTION NO: may look complicated or difficult, but if you stay calm and think it through, it's not that difficult.

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Comparison of prices across different suppliers would be called 'price analysis'; drilling down into costs of making or doing something would be called 'cost analysis'.

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Political.

It's a close-run thing with economic, but the reference to 'stability of governing regimes' clinches if for 'political'.

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Selling price minus variable costs = contribution., or more accurately 'contribution towards fixed costs and making a profit'. I find this longer term for 'fixed costs' to be quite helpful in clarifying exactly what we are talking about here.

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Weaknesses.

One might use a SWOT analysis when appraising potential suppliers for a significant purchase.