Answer: a. $120,000
b. $6,000
c. Yes
Explanation:
a. It is said that the collection centres would help reduce the collection time by 2 days and that every day $60,000 comes in.
If the proposal will reduce the amount of time taken to collect by 2 days then that means that the amount freed up is the amount that they would have collected in two days had it not been for the system.
That amount would be,
= $60,000 * 2
= $120,000
b. If they used this free up cash to pay off a debt that was accumulating 5% per year then the 5% will be saved.
The amount saved therefore is,
= 120,000 * 5%
= $6,000
By retiring a $120,000 that was accruing $6,000 a year, the proposal has enabled that $6,000 to be saved instead.
c. The cost of implementing this proposal is $5,200 per year and yet the savings it gives in interest is $6,000.
As the savings are higher than the cost, the number definitely suggest that the project should be implemented because it is more beneficial than it costs.
Almost always, labor unions bargain and negotiate for "all of the above" since they were formed during the Industrial Revolution when worker conditions were very dangerous.
Answer:
C) A firm's products are introduced into the market faster than its competitors' products.
Explanation:
Quick response refers to shorten the delivery time of products and services to meet the need of customers at the right moment. This is a way to survive the competition and increase the customer satisfaction. According to this, an example of competing on quick response wil be that a firm's products are introduced into the market faster than its competitors' products as the firm will be having a better delivery time than the competition which will allow it to put the goods first in the market which will give it an advantage by being first.
Answer: Enterprise System.
Explanation:
An enterprise system is a software system used by an organization to gather information/data from different departments in the organization: The information gathered can be easily accessed or used by the different departments of the organization.
Answer: 1. 18 times
2. Park is in better position
Explanation:
1. Times interest earned is a financial ratio that measures interest coverage. It's essentially to check if a company can pay it's debt payments and is calculated by either EBIT or EBITDA divided by the total interest expense. The higher the better and anything above 2.5 times is usually considered.
Calculating would therefore be,
= $6,120,000 /$340,000
= 18 times.
2. As mentioned in the first answer, for the Times interest earned, the higher it is, the more favourable it is. So Park Company will be considered safer and are most definitely in a better or worse position than its competitor to make interest payments if the economy turns bad. The fact that theirs is 18 means that they can pay off their interest expense 5 times more than their competitor who can only repay 12 times.
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