Parker & Stone, Inc., is looking at setting up a new manufacturing plant in South Park to produce garden tools. The company
bought some land 5 years ago for $9,639,708 in anticipation of using it as a warehouse and distribution site, but the company has since decided to rent these facilities from a competitor instead. If the land were sold today, the company would net $3,650,288. An engineer was hired to study the land at a cost of $810,081, and her conclusion was that the land can support the new manufacturing facility. The company wants to build its new manufacturing plant on this land; the plant will cost $6,880,840 million to build, and the site requires $529,656 worth of grading before it is suitable for construction. What is the proper cash flow amount to use as the initial investment in fixed assets when evaluating this project?
The newsvendor model may be defined as the mathematical model which is characterize by the fixed prices as well as the uncertain demand for the perishable products. This model is mainly used to determine the optimal inventory level.
According to the newsvendor model, there is only one opportunity to order. The cost of buying large quantities of the products may result in disposing them or selling the products at a lower price.
The optimal ordering quantity is maximum when the underage cost is higher than the overage cost.
This situation is explained in detail by the concept known has the multiplier. The multiplier measures how much impact will a change in an exogenous variable will cause in endogenous variables, for example How much a increase in Government spending will change Gross Domestic Product.
Whenever there is maximization of total surplus that is been received by those that are part of society by market allocation of resources then there is market Efficiency.
Economic efficiency can be regarded as economic state whereby there is allocation of resource to serve each individual or entity in way that everyone is satisfied while minimizing waste and inefficiency.
Therefore, When there is an economy efficiency, there would be maximization of total surplus.
The correct answer is letter "D": All of the answers are correct regarding a petty cash fund.
Explanation:
Petty cash funds are sums of money that are useful for businesses to take care of small payments. These payments are too low to allow a check to be written for payment. In some businesses, each department maintains its own small cash box for expenses such as office supplies per unit.
For accounting purposes, transactions involving petty cash are documented only when the petty cash was totally spent and a new fund is to be created and recorded with a voucher.
