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Answer:
The number of shares that Brick should use to calculate 2015 diluted earnings per share are 202,000 shares
Explanation:
The computation of the number of shares are shown below:
= January 1 shares + may 1 shares + convertible cumulative preferred stock
= 170,000 shares × 4 months ÷ 12 months + 200,000 shares × 8 months ÷ 12 months + 12,000 shares
= $56666.67 + $133,333.33 + $12,000
= $202,000 shares
The 4 months are calculated from January 1 to May 1, 2015
And, the 8 months are calculated from May 1 to December 31
Answer:
The seller may reject the offer and choose to provide a counteroffer.
Explanation:
In a free-market environment, a seller has the option to accept or decline an offer for what he is selling, in this case, a house. Furthermore, he can propose a counteroffer to see if the buyer is able and willing to pay more for that house. Taking this simple rules into account, the seller may reject Kelly’s offer if he wants and can choose to make a counteroffer.
Answer:
Cost-plus-fixed-fee pricing
Explanation:
Cost-plus-fixed-fee pricing is when the contractor specifies the expenses of a project and a fixed fee for the services that provides which allows the contractor to earn a profit. In this type of pricing, the overall cost of the project is determined at the end and all the authorized costs are paid to the contractor in full. According to this, the answer is that these contractors use cost-plus-fixed-fee pricing to compensate them for any cost overruns.
Answer:
2) Set the price of each piece of furniture equal to the marginal cost of producing it.
Explanation:
What happens in two-part tariff is that the producer recovers the entire cost of producing by charging price equal to the marginal cost.
This helps him recover cost and the entire fee the producer charges results in profits eventually. Hence, the profits is the consumer 'surplus' that we calculate given that the price of product is equal to marginal cost.
So answer here is 2- Set the price of each piece of furniture equal to the marginal cost of producing it.
