Stardust Coffee Company is a Texas-based firm that does business throughout the world. Stardust manages retail and wholesale operations, buys and sells commercial venues, undeveloped land, and coffee beans, and other goods. Stardust has had to deal with employee and customer theft. With respect to these circumstances, the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) provides a framework for:

a. commercial transactions for the sale of and payment for goods.

b. international distribution agreements.

c. domestic and foreign transactions in real estate.

d. prosecuting crimes against business interests.