The EHC will receive $2,300,000 from managed care companies and Medicare in three months, but the shortfall at the business must be resolved first. To achieve this, we must determine two cost cutting measures. A loan option must be identified as well. The cost cutting options we have at EHC are reducing benefits, reducing agency staff, downsizing staff, reducing length-of-stay, or changing the skill mix (University of Phoenix, 2015). To achieve a cost saving target of $750,000 for the first quarter the first cost cutting measure I selected is reducing a proportion of the agency contracted staff.
If the sales outlook for the coming three years was only 20,000,000 and B.E. continued producing at the rate of 30,000,000 units, a total of 10,000,000 units would be dumped into ending inventory at the end of each year once again reducing costs of goods sold and falsely increasing income. By the end of year 2013, B.E. Company would have 35,000,000 units sitting in ending inventory taking up space and costing money to store. Once again if the president’s bonus is based off of net income, this situation is the most favorable for a high paying bonus and encourages stockpiling inventory to inflate net income.
The applicable MACRS rates are 33%, 45%, 15%, and 7%. If the computer is purchased, a maintenance contract must be obtained at a cost of $25,000, payable at the beginning of each year. After 4 years, the computer will be sold. Millon’s best estimate of its residual value at that time is $125,000. Because technology is changing rapidly, however, the residual value is uncertain.
I came to this decision by using the feasibility analysis. The Juniper programs risk is too low to be competitive in the current market. The Palomino project does not have they reward to match the risk involved in the project. The ROI on the Palomino project would be $9000 per year for 5 years. The Stargazer, while it is the highest risk project, offers the most reward for the longest period of time.
How much is a driver’s life worth? There are no guarantees in this scenario for $1,000,000+….it only says Goodstone is considering it. Is a driver’s life worth more or less than $1,000,000? The current financial state of the team is $32,500 in the hole. There are 4 possible outcomes in this scenario: 1) Sampson Team decides to race and finishes in the Top 5 50% Chance.
If you choose 40 random employees from the corporation, the standard error would equal 6/Square root of 40 = .95 days. The 12 days in this department corresponds to (12-8.2)/.95 = 4 standard errors above the corporation average of 8.2. This is much higher than two or three standard errors, and it appears to be beyond chance variation. Chapter 9 Exercise 3 The p- value tells you how likely it would be to get results at least as extreme as this if there was no difference in the taste and only chance variation was operating. In this problem, p-value of 0.02 means that, if there is no difference in taste, then there is only 2% chance that 70% or more people would declare one drink better than the
Since then, Microsoft has spent billions of dollars in acquisitions to either eliminate competition or gain competitive advantage in the market. In 2000 they purchased Visio (wholesale drawing software) for more than 1.3 billion dollars. In 2002 they purchased another software company called Navision; again for about 1.3 billion, and in August of 2007 they acquired aQuantive – a digital marketing company for a whopping 6.3 billion plus. Initially, such a purchase does not seem to jive with the purpose and vision of a computer software company; perhaps Alan Tanaka’s vision of Templar Towers (though not highly favored by the others) is a direction Friar Tucker ought to take the company. Perhaps they ought to indulge in the proposed office complex; while 18 million dollars is the largest sum of initial investment between three other projects it does appear to have the potential to yield the largest Return on Investment (ROI).
This should be 3.4 percent per millions items made. Things that they consider defective are anything outside of what the customer demands. The objective of Six Sigma is the implementation of measurement based on strategy. Six Sigma academies save companies approximately $230,000 or more per project. There are advantages just as there are disadvantages to Six Sigma.
Question 4 has five parts: a through e. Huntington Industries is developing the relevant cash flows associated with the proposed replacement of an existing machine tool with a new, technologically advanced one. Given the following costs related to the proposed project, explain whether each would be treated as a sunk cost or an opportunity cost in developing the relevant cash flows associated with the proposed replacement decision. Note: it is not sufficient to simply identify each item as sunk cost or opportunity cost. You must explain why the item is a sunk cost or an opportunity cost. a) Huntington would be able to use the same tooling, which had a book value of $40,000, on the new machine tool as it had used on the old one.
According to Ex.1, gross billing of the case was $870,000 and the revenue was $154,400. Cost of direct payroll was 88.19% of revenue, which was much higher than the 55% breakeven point. This means that the T&D corporation account would not generate a profit. To make it profitable, O’Reilley should consider following approaches. Firstly, the biggest cost issue was the copy, which was 35.60% of total revenue.