Question

The Mykari Publishing House invested in buying high-end machinery that allowed its newspapers to be printed at twice the speed of average printing machines. The executives of the company stated that this would increase the company's profit margin by 12% as opposed to the usual 7 to 8% that it makes annually. When the finances of the company were tallied this year, it was found that the profits increased to about 19%. This scenario best illustrates ________.

Answer 1

Answer: above-average profits

Explanation: In the given case, while making the change in the operations the managements anticipated an increase in profit by 125 max. These types of anticipations are done by the managers on the basis of past records or the current existing trends.

Usually under such situations the management tries to take average of the anticipated figures so that expectations of take holders would not get high too much.

Hence the increase of 19% depicts that the profit increased by more than the average level as anticipated by the managers.