What is the purpose of a survey? What are three examples of a survey and what potential purpose could each be used for? How can one work to ensure the participants of a survey will have their responses kept private? How can one work to ensure that information gained from a survey is unbiased? Would planning and having
Describe 5 data collection techniques in your own words. Explain why the examination of collected data is so important.
1. Weighted average cost of capital Global Technology's capital structure is as follows: Debt 35% Preferred stock 15 Common equity 50 The after-tax cost of debt is 6.5 percent; the cost of preferred stock is 10 percent; and the cost of common equity (in the form of retained earnings) is 13.5 percent Calculate Global Tech
SPSS computation and Interpretation: Barron's conducts an annual review of online brokers, including both brokers that can be accessed via a Web browser, as well as direct-access brokers that connect customers directly with the broker's network server. Each broker's offerings and performance are evaluated in six areas, using a
If the current interest rate on new debt is 9% and the marginal tax rate is 40% and the capital structure is: Debt: $104,000,000 Common Equity: $156,000,000 Total Liabilities and Equity: $260,000,000 How do I figure the weighted average cost of capital (WACC)?
Details: If a good friend of yours has had serious financial misfortunes lately and is unable to meet her debt payments, what advice can you give? Be sure to include the topic of bankruptcy because she has heard that it eliminates all your credit problems. In your discussion, distinguish between straight bankruptcy and a wage ea
A stock sells for $40. The next dividend will be $4 per share. If the rate of return earned on reinvested funds is 15 percent and the company reinvests 40 percent of earnings in the firm, what must be the discount rate?
Let R(q) = 1/100 x^2 be a revenue function and C(q) = sqrt(x) be a cost function for a particular business commodity. a) Demonstrate that C(q) = R(q) at approximately q =21.544. b) Determine the marginal cost and marginal revenue functions. c) Suppose the supply and demand for this commodity equalize at q=25. Determine the
The Austin, Texas plant of Computer Products produces floppy disk units for personal and small business computers. Gerald Knox, the plant's production planning director, is looking over next year's sales forecasts for these products and will be developing an aggregate capacity plan for the plant. The quarterly sales forecasts
Assume that Product Z is made up of two units of A and four units of B. A is made of three units of C and four units of D. D is made of two units of E. The lead time for Z is two weeks and for E the lead time is three weeks. The lead time for all other units is one week. The demand for Z is 100 units in Week 10 and 200 unit
Drop a Product/Opportunity Cost Midwestsern Sod Company produces two products: Fescue Grass and Bermuda Grass Bermuda Grass
Show that K3,3 has list-chromatic number 3. Please can you explain what does list-chromatic number means and don't forget to draw a graph.
Please help with the following problem. Provide calculations and explanations. 1. How much should a $1,000-face-value bonds sell for, assuming the following conditions: - The bond pays a coupon of 11% - The coupon payments are paid annually. - The required rate of return on similar-risk investments is 9%. - T
The repair manager at Standard Components needs to develop a priority schedule for repairing 8 Dell pc's. Each job requires analysis using the same diagnostic system. Futhermore,each job will require additional processing after the diagnostic evaluation. The manager does not expect any rescheduling delays,and the jobs are to mov
1. Determine which of the two investment projects a manager should choose if the discount rate of the firm is 10 percent. The first project promises a profit of $100,000 in each of the next four years, while the second project promises a profit of $75,000 in each of the next six years. 2. Determine which of two investment pro
For many months your prospective ERP customer has been analyzing the hundreds of assumptions built into the $800,000 ERP software you are selling. So far, you have knocked yourself out to try to make this sale. If the sale goes through, you will reach your yearly quota and get a nice bonus. On the other hand, loss of this sal
Case Problem 1 The Carlson Department Store suffered heavy damage when a hurricane struck on August 31, 1996. The store was closed for four months (September 1996 through December 1996), and Carlson is now involved in a dispute with its insurance company concerning the amount of lost sales during the time the store was closed
Figure 15.35 (attached) shows a partially completed inventory record for the rear wheel subassembly. a) Complete the last 3 rows of the record for an FOQ of 300 units b) complete the last 3 rows of the record by using the L4L rule c) Complete the last 3 rows by using the POQ rule,with p=4.
Product A is made from components B and C. Item B, in turn, is made from D and E. Item C also is an intermediate item, made from F and H. Finally, intermediate item E is made from H and G. Note the item H has two parents. The following are item lead times: Item A B C D E F
Every night before closing, the night manager counts the amount of money in the cash register. The amount of money in the cash register is an example of what level of data? nominal ordinal interval ratio Question 2 Which of the following refers to when a researcher gathers data on a group to describe or rea
Management at Davis Corporation has determined the following demand schedule in units. Month Demand Month Demand 1 500 7 1,400 2 800 8 1,200 3 1,000 9 1,000 4 1,400 10 2,400 5 2,000 11 3,000 6
Incremental Analysis: The Jefferson Plaza Hotel is a deluxe four star establishment. Late on Friday, it had 10 of its 200 rooms available when the desk clerk received a call from the Riley Hotel. The Riley Hotel made a booking error, and did not have room for three guests (each of whom had a "confirmed" room). The Riley wants t
1. A large manufacturing company in Indianapolis produces valves for the chemical industry. According to specifications, one particular valve is supposed to have a five-inch opening on the side. Quality control inspectors take random samples of these valves just after the hole is bored. They measure the size of the hole in an ef
Fabert Corp uses the weighted-average method in its process costing system. The Assembly Department started the month with 16,000 units in its beginning work in process inventory that were 40% completed with respect to conversion costs. An additional 60,000 units were transferred in from the prior department during the month t
A bond has 10 years until maturity, a coupon rate of 8 percent, and sells for $1,100. a. What is the current yield on the bond? b. What is the yield to maturity?
The Darby Company manufactures and distributes meter used to measure electric power consumption. The company started with a small production plant in El Paso and gradually built a customer base throughout Texas. A distribution center was established in Ft. Worth, Texas later, as business expanded to the north, a second distrib
1) A fast-food restaurant serves hamburgers, cheeseburgers, and chicken sandwiches. The restaurant counts a cheeseburger as equivalent to 1.25 hamburgers and chicken sandwiches as 0.8 hamburger. Current employment is five full-time employees (each working a 40-hour week). a) If the restaurant sold 700 hamburgers, 900 chee
A soft drink maker wants to expand into a neighboring country. They want the product bottled in that country to avoid political issues and to enhance the local image of the product. They have identified two options for the expansion. The first is to build a highly automated process. The economies of scale would allow them to
1. Telephone calls arrive at the rate of 48 per hour at the reservation desk for the David Parker. Find the probability of receiving 3 calls in a five-minute period. Put your answer in the form 0.xxxx (four places) with no additional symbols or numbers. 2. Consider a binomial experiment with 2 trials and p = 0.4. Find the
You asked the employees of Financial Outsourcing , Inc, to provide some sample informational questions to put on the FAQ ( Frequently Asked Questions ) page within the company web site. These are the questions they supplied: 1. Sally worked 48 hours this week. Her overtime rate is 1.5 times the regular rate.