Answer:
The correct answer is letter "C": shortage costs increase as total carrying costs increase.
Explanation:
A shortage takes place when the quantity demanded is higher than the supply at the current price. Typically, shortages occur because of an increase in demand, a decrease in supply or due to government policies. Shortage costs are those costs a firm is responsible for because the is no enough stock in its inventory. When shortage costs increase, the carrying costs do not necessarily increase.
Answer:
Contribution per unit of scare resource (in hour) = $24 per hour
Explanation:
The question falls under the limiting factor analysis
<em>When a business is faced with a problem of shortage of a resource which can be used to produced more than one product type, to maximize the use of the resource , the business should allocate it for production purpose in such a way that </em><em>it maximizes the contribution per unit of the scare resource.</em>
Therefore Santario Company should allocate the machine hours to maximize the contribution per unit of machine hour.
Contribution per unit of scare resource is determine as follows:
Contribution per unit of scare resource for Model K-3
Contribution per unit of Model K-3 = $6
Machine time per unit = 15 minutes
<em>Contribution per unit of scare resource in minutes</em>
=Contribution per unit/Machine time per unit
= 46/15 minutes
= $0.4 per minute
Contribution per unit of scare resource (in hour)
$0.4 per minutes× 60
= $24 per hour
i feel either c or d but d is probably wrong because they would have asked you that at the interview and c could be right because they need your social security for taxes so C
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Explanation:</h3><h3>Part (a):</h3>
Solved part is attached as an image.
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Part (b):</h3>
Let us first determine the amount required of each item to produce 1 bracket.
From the attached diagram, we can see that to manufacture 1 bracket, quantity of each item needed is,
Base = 1
Spring = 2
Clamp = 1 + 4 = 5
Housing = 2
Handle = (1 * 1) + (4 * 1) = 5
Casting = (1 * 1) + (4 * 1) = 5
Bearing = 2 * 2 = 4
Shaft = 2 * 1 = 2
Hence, for 50 Brackets, quantity of each item required will be,
Base = 1 * 50 = 50
Spring = 2 * 50 = 100
Clamp = 5 * 50 = 250
Housing = 2 * 50 = 100
Handle = 5 * 50 = 250
Casting = 5 * 50 = 250
Bearing = 4 * 50 = 200
Shaft = 2 * 50 = 100
<em>NOTE: The above quantities give exclusive quantities required for each item. In actual practice, we won't have to purchase base, clamp & housing separately as the will be assembled from their components which are already procured.</em>
<h3>Part (c):</h3>
As 25 bases are already in stock, parts for them will not be needed. I will refer the quantities subtracted due to this by indicating (B). Similarly, quantities subtracted due to clamps will be indicated as (C).
Base = 50 - 25 = 25
Spring = 50
Clamp = 250 - 100 - 25(B) = 125
Housing = 100 - (2*25)(B) = 50
Handle = 1 * 125 = 125
Casting = 1 * 125 = 125
Bearing = 2 * 50 = 100
Shaft = 1 * 50 = 50
Answer:
D. Less; Less
Explanation:
Given that
CPI in 2005 = 1.68
Wage in 1972 = 7200
Wage in 2005 = 30,000
CPI in 1971 = 0.418
Therefore,
Real wage in 1972 = wage in 1972/CPI in 1972
= 7200/0.418
= $17,224.88
Real wage in 2005 = wage in 2005/CPI in 2005
= 30000/1.68
=$17,857.14
Thus, from the given data 1972 job paid LESS in nominal terms (7200 < 30000) and LESS in real terms (17,244.88 < 17,857.14) than the 2005 job.
