Munson Performance Auto, Inc., modifies 375 autos per year. The manager, Adam Munson, is interested in obtaining a measure of
overall performance. He has asked you to provide him with a multifactor measure of last year's performance as a benchmark for future comparison. You have assembled the following data. Resource inputs were: labor, 10500 hours; 500 suspension and engine modification kits; and energy, 100000 kilowatt-hours. Average labor cost last year was $25 per hour, kits cost $1,000 each, and energy costs were $5 per kilowatt-hour. The overall performance at Munson Performance Auto, Inc. = autos/dollar of input (round your response to six decimal places).
"Consumer Price Index" <em>(CPI)</em> measures the changes in the weighted average of prices of a market basket (consisting of consumer goods and services). It tells the<u> cost of living for every consumer. </u>
"Inflation" refers to the sustained increase of prices of goods and services while "deflation" refers to the sustained decrease of prices of goods and services.
In the situation above, the CPI is considered lower than before, thus <u>deflation</u> must have occurred during the second six-year period. It shows a <u>negative inflation rate.</u>
<span>These would be the variable costs. Since the dress uses up to a specified amount of each of these elements, the costs can vary depending on the size of the gown and the person wearing the gown. Variable costs, unlike those that are fixed, are able to change based upon outside factors.</span>
Residual income is the income that is generated in excess of the minimum required rate of return, which in this case is 10%. Any income above 10% return is considered as residual income. In this case the investment is 1,800,000 and 10% of that is 180,000 (0.1*1,800,000). So any income made above $180,000 will be residual income. In order to find the residual income we subtract the minimum income required from the actual income.
In this case the minimum income required is 180,000 and the actual operating income is 216,000 so residual income=
