In her Forrester Research report released Monday, Epps argues that when Amazon releases its tablet on the market, it has the potential to become the top competitor to Apple's iPad. The reason? It likely will be marketed at a significantly lower price. "If Amazon launches at a price point significantly lower than competing tablets--some sources suggest that it may be able to launch a 9-inch LCD touchscreen tablet for as low as $299--and has enough supply to meet demand, Forrester estimates that Amazon could sell as many as 3 million to 5 million tablets in Q4 2011 alone," Epps says--meaning Amazon's offering would leapfrog over competeting devices that have been on the market much
The company has spent a further $200,000 for a marketing study to determine the expected sales figures for the new smartphone. Conch republic can manufacture the new smartphone for $185 each in variable costs. Fixed costs for the operation are estimated to run $5.3 million per year. The estimated sales volume is 74,000, 95,000, 125,000, 105,000, and 80,000 per year for the next five years, respectively. The unit price of the new smartphone will be $480.
| Math 103 Final Project – Parts 1, 2, and 3 | | | Math 103 Instructor: Toni Robertson December 11, 2010 Math 103 Instructor: Toni Robertson December 11, 2010 Part 1: 1a. What is the shortest loan (36 months, 48 months, 60 months or 72 months) that has a monthly payment within your $500 budget that will allow you to buy the $15,000 car? Answer: Through Bank of America, I found a rate of 2.99% for the 36, 48 and 60 month loans. We are able to put down 20% and will need to finance $12,000. The shortest loan period for the $15,000 car that would be under our $500 limit is the 36 month loan at a rate of $348.93 per month.
Based on volume output the best option to cost-effectively manufacture the Samba Sneakers would be to buy New Equipment with fixed cost of $200,000, variable cost of $500 for every 1,000 sneaker. -Buying new equipment has the lowest cost option for a volume over 300 sneakers manufactured. The breakeven points for each option are as follows: BREAKEVEN POINTS Units Dollars Reconditioned vs. New Equipment 300 350000 Reconditioned vs. Outsource 25 75000 New Equipment vs. Outsource 80 240000 However, buying New Equipment has the lowest cost according to the graph for volumes over 300 sneakers. (See Graph) A1. A1a.
Business Analysis II Joshua Dean MGT/521 6-25-2012 Alisa Fleming Business Analysis II This paper will discuss the financial health of Apple Inc. It will look at Apple’s own income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow along with looking at the company’s health compared to two of their competitors, Microsoft and Google. By comparing Apple to their competitors readers will be able to better understand the financial strength of Apple Inc. Apple’s financial statements only go through 2011 because their fiscal year finishes at the end of September and is released in late October. According to Apple’s balance sheet the debt to equity ratio is .51. This was found by dividing their liability of $39,756 billion by their equity of $76,615
Plus the cost of the damage is less than the deductible. 2. Beverly and Kyle Nelson currently insure their cars with separate companies paying $650 and $575 a year. If they insure both cars with the same company, they would save 10 percent on the annual premiums. What would be the future value of the annual savings over ten years based on an annual interest rate of 6 percent?
* Apple has the biggest online apps store for iPhones, iPods touch, iPad and Mac with over 585,000 apps for users. * The stage of iPhone 4S ’ s ‘product life cycle’ is growth. Because It has just came out to the market for only 6 months and with a lot of new software and features it might affect some applications that do not fit with the new changes. So Apple needs to update the firmware and improve the quality of performance for the phone, example: apple just release the update iOS 5.1 to increase the battery life and improved Siri by provide a new language for voice recognized: Japanese bring up to 6 different kinds of voice recognized languages: English, British English, Australian English, French, and German. * Our organization’s overall marketing strategy is in order to satisfy consumer and increase the market volume, we need to give them better quality and performance of products with lower price.
Samsung Electronics 2. To what extent could Samsung’s profitability be attributed to its low cost advantage? What has Samsung done to achieve it? Samsung’s semiconductor divisions are the world’s the most advanced technology, and they are leading the DRAM, SRAM, Flash memory markets. In 2004, Samsung did sharp drop in the market prices.
Olympic purchased new cars, rented them to customers for 15,000 to 30,000 miles(approx. a period of 8 months to 1 ½ years) and then sold them to retail(60%) and wholesale markets. External: Industry analysis Slow growth rate after a decline in 2009, when total market revenue fell 6.5% from 2008. In 2012, there were 1.6 million rental cars in service, 0.5% fewer than in 2009 but higher than in 2010. Matured market size of $24 billion, with a projected 2% annual growth rate.
Assuming that only 65% of proteins are recovered, it is 136 Kgs. With 15 batches per year, it leads to 2048 Kgs. Given that Genentech keeps one year worth of stock, it does make sense to make a decision on increasing the capacity now but to reiterate, these numbers are based on very optimistic assumption. The cost to build new plant is around 500 to 600 million dollars; most of which must be invested by second year. Minimum time to get it ready is