Explanation: When the price of gold an input used in the production of processors increases, it leads to a rise in the cost of producing processors. As a result of this, producers will cut down their production and decrease supply. The supply curve for processors will shift upward to the left from S1 to S2 leading to a rise in the price of processors from P1 to P2 and a fall in the quantity of processors being sold in the market from Q1 to Q2.
Answer:
d. price competition is especially vigorous, buyers have low switching costs, and the majority of industry sales are made to a few, large volume buyers.
Explanation:
Michael Porter specified 4 generic strategies for gaining competitive advantage, which are namely,
1. Cost Focus
2. Differentiation Focus
3. Cost Leadership
4. Differentiation
Cost leadership refers to charging lowest price and attaining cost advantage in the industry.
Differentiation refers to designing products with unique attributes.
Striving to be low cost provider would be most attractive when the buyers have low switching costs i.e it is easier and cheap to switch between products and wherein buyers are large and exercise considerable bargaining power.
Thus, the correct option is (d). price competition is especially vigorous, buyers have low switching costs, and the majority of industry sales are made to a few, large volume buyers.
Answer:
The maximum that should be paid for the stock today is $30.23.
Explanation:
The total return on a stock is made up of dividend received on the stock plus the capital gain received from selling the stock. The holding period is one year that means a 10% return on the amount invested in required for one year. We need to calculate the present value of the total of selling price plus the dividend to calculate the price of the stock today. As 10% return is required, the discount rate is also 10%.
PV = (1.25 + 32) / 1.1
PV = 30.227 rounded off to 30.23
Answer:
A. The company paid a higher cost for the direct materials than allowed by the standards.
Explanation:
The following is a logical explanation for this variance:
Since, the standard quantity of raw materials to be used is 22 pounds x 500 units = 11000 pounds. The actual usage is 9500 pounds ony. Hence, variance in direct material price variance can be only due to higher cost of direct material purchased.
