Answer:
1. It has worsened
2. Yes (refer details below)
3. Refer details below
Explanation:
1. Performance
The performance of the company over the last three years has worsened as indicated by declining sales and decreasing current ratios impacting profitability and liquidity of the company.
2. Concerns
One of the most important concern for the company is its declining sales. It shows that the products are not competitive. Current ratios indicates liquidity crisis since they are decreasing.
3. Recommendations
The company's turnover ratio is high, which may indicates payments are being received timely, and hence the co. should take advantage of that
Low inventory turnover, on the other hand, indicates weaker sales and declining demand for a company’s products which is corroborated by the declining sales trend, the co. must increase its sales, launch new products, advertise aggressively.
Answer:
Demand for plastic sprinklers for year 1 Year 2 Year 3 and Year 4 is 98 (33 + 14 + 51) , 111 , 133, 136.
Explanation:
The Production line capacity requirement for the next four years will be equal to the demand for the next four years. The production line needs to meet the annual demand for the plastic sprinklers. The production line is extended and economies of scale is introduced with helps the company save additional cost of extension in the production line.
Answer:
Consider the following explanation
Explanation:
Context
Game theory involves two players. They have more than one option to decide. Pay off from each options adopted by two players are available. They have to select a strategy which will maximize their own return. But for optimizing their decision, they have to consider the action of his rival.
In this problem, two players are firm A and firm B. They have two strategies low output and high output. The strategies of firm a are measured in rows and for firm B in columns. They have to select a strategy which will maximize their payy off. Each cell has two pay offs. First one is for Firm A and second one is for firm B.
1. Dominant strategy is a strategy which will always give higher payoffs in comparison with pay off of other strategies. Consider first strategy of firm 1. If it adopts strategy of low output, then firm 2 can also adopt either strategy of low output or high output. In that case pay off of firm 1 will be 300 or 200.
Alteratively if firm 1 adopts high output then pay offs are 200 or 75. 200 is earned if firm B also go for low productivity. It is 75 if firm B adopts high productivity.
Now compare two payoffs side by side. Note that firm A has higher pay off in low output [300,200] in comparison with the pay off of high output [200,75]. So whatever strategy firm B adopts, Firm A will always go for low production. So low production strategy of firm A dominates high production strategy.
Same result is not observed for firm B. Pay off from low production strategy of firm B is [ 250,75]. Pay off from high production strategy are [100,100]. Now compare the two. If Firm A go for low production, then firm B will select low production. It will give pay off 250. Similarly when firm A decides for high production, then firm will also decide for high production. It will maximize its pay off. Amount is 100. Thus no strategy dominates for firm B.
Answer:
option (c) $167,597.77
Explanation:
Data provided in the question:
Monthly mortgage payment = $900
Duration of loan, n = 30 years = 360 months
Interest rate = 5%
Monthly rate of interest = 5% ÷ 12 = 0.4167% = 0.004167
Now,
Mortgage loan can he afford
= Monthly mortgage payment × [ (1 - ((1 + r)ⁿ)⁻¹ ) ÷ r ]
= $900 × [ (1 - ((1 + 0.004167)³⁶⁰)⁻¹ ) ÷ 0.05 ]
= $167,597.77
Hence,
The answer is option (c) $167,597.77
Answer:
Consider the following explanation
Explanation:
Please note that if cash requirements are combined, mean requirement of combined entity can be simply summed up, but same is not true for standard deviation as it is not additive.
So first we need to calculate the variance by taking square of SD, then we sum it for all the location to get variance of combined entity and then we take square root again to get the SD of combined entity.
Keep in mind that we can take a simple summation of variance due to the fact that requirement in different locations are independent of each other and their correlation coefficient is = 0.
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