In the context of business management, the purpose of budgeting includes the following three aspects:
•A forecast of income and expenditure (and thereby profitability)
•A tool for decision making
•A means to monitor business performance
Answer:
...when that project will have the same level of risk as the firm's current operations
Explanation:
Weighted average cost of capital (WACC) is the company's cost of capital based on its proportion of equity and debt used in its capital structure. It can be used as the discount rate for calculating the present value of future expected cashflows of a project if the project is determined to be of similar risk to the company's operations; meaning that the estimated beta of the project is the same as the beta of the firm.
Answer:
franchisor; franchisee
Explanation:
Franchising is the system for the expanding business and distributing the goods and the services to meet the higher demand.
Franchisor is the big name and big company or business which offers small business for franchising in order to gain profits and expanding business.
Franchisee is small business owner who has purchased right to use existing business's trademarks and then uphold same standards as first business.
Hence, in the given case, Dog N' Cat is the <u>franchisor</u> and you are the <u>franchisee</u>.
Answer:
75%
Explanation:
Since the production center is available for 8 hours per day in a factory, and the worker operating it is required to lubricate these rotary parts once each day.
If it takes 2 hours to remove these parts from the equipment, lubricate them, and re-assemble them and the production center is not available for production during these times;
Then the availability of the production center is 75% which is derived by : [8 hours total - 2 hours downtime / 8 hours total availability] x 100 = 75%
Answer:
The correct answer is option B.
Explanation:
Profit maximization refers to the situation when a firm is able to maximize the total profit that it could earn through the production of goods and services.
The total profit is maximized when the marginal profit is zero or when the marginal revenue is equal to marginal cost. The marginal profit is the difference between marginal revenue and marginal cost.
If the marginal revenue is greater than the marginal cost the firm should increase production till both are equal.
In case, marginal revenue is less than the marginal cost the firm should stop producing more and reduce production till both are equal.
