Which of the following is not a characteristic of the company's operations? ○ The company has a staff of people engaged in product R&D; this group has the capability to develop new and improved models of cameras and drones as directed by top management. ○ The needed parts and components for assembling the company's line-up of camera and drone models are obtained from suppliers having the capabilities to make deliveries to the company's Taiwan assembly site on a just-in-time basis, thus eliminating the need to maintain inventories of parts or components. Camera models and drone models are assembled in advance; buyer orders are promptly filled from existing inventories of previously-produced camera and drone models that are warehoused in the facilities where they were assembled; all camera/drone orders are typically shipped within 2-3 business days of receiving the order. The cost of boxing cameras, packaging them for shipment, and freight charges average $5 per camera. Packaging and shipping costs for drones average $60 per unit. Both cameras and drones are assembled by four-person product assembly teams (PATS), with each PAT performing the needed tasks at its own assigned workstation. Your company's board of directors expects you and your co- managers to achieve improved company performance outcomes that include ongoing increases in the company's stock price. Your company's stock price is a function of two factors: earnings per share growth and your company's credit rating. five factors: earnings per share growth, average ROE, P/Q rating for cameras, P/Q rating for drones, and credit rating. earnings per share growth, average ROE, the rate of growth in the annual dividend paid to shareholders, the credit rating, and management's ability to consistently deliver good results (as measured by the percentage of the 5 performance targets that your company achieves over the course of all completed decision rounds). three factors: earnings per share growth, your company's credit rating, and the number of annual increases in dividends per share. ○ four factors: percentage growth in earnings per share, percentage growth in dividends per share, having a credit rating of B+ or better, and the size of the company's debt-assets ratio.