Answer: The correct answer is " a. $92,000.".
Explanation: The explicit costs are observable, that is, those that we can easily take into account and decrease our operating result (salaries paid to employees, material costs, taxes, etc.)
So her total explicit cost were: $12 000 + $65 000 + $15 000 = $92 000.
Problem:
Buy extended warranty for $950 laptop or not?
Alternative:
1) Buy extended warranty
2) Not buy extended warranty
Criteria:
Practical and cost saving in the long-run
Evaluate Alternatives:
1) <span>Buy extended warranty </span>
con:<span> pay additional $99. </span>
pro: <span>5 year warranty coverage. </span>
pro: repairs may be done at a local store
2) Not buy extended warranty
pro&con: laptop comes with one-year limited warrant
pro: no additional payment
con: repairs will be done by manufacturer
<span> con: repair costs range from $50 to $450
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Decision:
BUY EXTENDED WARRANTY
Answer:
Explanation:
Coupon rate = 5.07%
Yield to maturity = 4.84%
Rate = Yield/2 = 2.42%
N = 14 = 14*2 semiannually = 28 semiannually
Face value = $1000
PMT = (face value*coupon rate)/2 = $25.35
Need to find price which is PV
Using the financial calculator, PV = $1023
Number of bonds to be issued = 41,000,000/1023 = 40,078
Answer: Endowments
Explanation:
The institutional investors that most likely must spend a target percentage of the portfolio annually is the endowments.
Endowment fund refers to the long term fund that is used for perpetual operations and usually set up by colleges or in hospitals
The fund then covers the expenses relating to provision of services for the students. A portion of the endowment is allowed to be use for every fiscal year.
I would suggest it would most likely to be either A or B or both, however if I had to pick one I would go for A.
A - The question suggests you may have been putting more effort and <span>enthusiasm</span> into sales of the products for your new business "<span>you were so excited about the large volume of orders you had" which may mean after your first year of business you may have started to slack of or get complacent with putting you business out there marketing wise, also when launching a product for the first time people are interested in the new and latest thing (such as a new business) after a while people start to forget unless you have marketing and advertising to remind them.
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B - If the product you offer is unique and you were the first business to sale this / these items then after a year it is possible other competitors have started to copy you however this would completely depend on the products you sale.
C - Given you already had large orders in the first year people are happy to pay for the products you offer so this would exclude C.
D - If you have already had many orders in the first year people obviously want the products you sale even if you only sale 1 or 2 things so unlikely to be D.