The management of Ballard MicroBrew is considering the purchase of an automated bottling machine for $55,000. The machine would replace an old piece of equipment that costs $15,000 per year to operate. The new machine would cost $7,000 per year to operate. The old machine currently in use could be sold now for a salvage value of $26,000. The new machine would have a useful life of 10 years with no salvage value Required: 1 What is the annual depreciation expense associated with the new bottling machine? 2 What is the annual incremental net operating income provided by the new bottling machine? 3. What is the amount of the initial investment associated with this project that should be used for calculating the simple rate of return? 4. What is the simple rate of return on the new bottling machine? (Round your answer to 1 decimal place le. 0.123 should be considered as 12.3%.) 1 2. 3 Depreciation expense Incremental net operating income Initial Investment Simple rate of return
The management of ballard microbrew is considering the purchase of an automated bottling machine for $55,000. the machine would replace an old piece of equipment that costs $15,000 per year to operate. the new machine would cost $7,000 per year to operate. the old machine currently in use could be sold now for a salvage value of $26,000. the new machine would have a useful life of 10 years with no salvage value. required: 1. what is the annual depreciation expense associated with the new bottling machine? 2. what is the annual incremental net operating income provided by the new bottling machine? 3. what is the amount of the initial investment associated with this project that should be used for calculating the simple rate of return? 4. what is the simple rate of return on the new bottling machine? (round your answer to 1 decimal place i. e. 0.123 should be considered as 12.3%.)
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Here's the options that completes the question:
A. building a state-of-the-art facility to fully capture scale economies via an export strategy.
B. using export, licensing, or franchising strategies so as to minimize risk and capital investment.
C. locating buyer-related activities in all countries where it sells its product.
D. dispersing its activities among various countries in a manner that lowers costs or else helps achieve greater product differentiation and transferring competitively valuable competencies and capabilities from its domestic operations to its operations in foreign markets.
E. avoiding the use of strategies that entail coordinating its domestic strategic moves with its strategic moves in the various foreign markets that it enters.
Answer:
D. dispersing its activities among various countries in a manner that lowers costs or else helps achieve greater product differentiation and transferring competitively valuable competencies and capabilities from its domestic operations to its operations in foreign markets
Explanation:
A key condition that makes a firm achieve competitive advantage or a favourable business position is it's costs and product design.
If a firm can lower it's cost in a foreign market while also maintaining quality just as it is has done in it's domestic market then it stands a better chance of success.
For example, if a firm in the clothing line industry decides to expand its operations to a foreign market eg Africa.
A key factor in determining its success is its ability to lower its cost in the foreign market as compared to competitors, while also achieving the same quality standards of products.
Answer:
Explanation:
The preparation of the Cash Flows from Operating Activities—Indirect Method is shown below:
Cash flow from Operating activities - Indirect method
Net income $481,540
Adjustment made:
Add : Depreciation expense $44,200
Add: Amortization expense $4,200
Less: Gain on sale of equipment - $6,200
Less: Increase in accounts receivable - $30,500
Less: Increase in inventory - $25,000
Less: Decrease in accounts payable - $12,500
Less: Decrease in salaries payable - $3,500
Net Cash flow from Operating activities $452,240
Answer:
b. The ratio decreased
Explanation:
The current ratio is a financial performance measure that compares current assets to current liabilities, hence, in ascertaining the impact of the short-term borrowing on the current ratio, we would compute the current ratio before and after having taken the short term loan as shown thus"
current ratio=current assets/current liabilities
Before borrowing:
current ratio=$375,000/$150,000
current ratio=2.50
After borrowing:
current ratio=$375,000/($150,000+$75000)
current ratio=1.67(it has declined from earlier 2.50 to 1.67)
Answer:
Garbage-can model
Explanation:
The decision-making models that best describe how decision-making takes place in the research and development laboratory of a major drug company is the Garbage-can model, this is because the research and development laboratory is a complex and unstable environment
decisions taken in a research laboratory are mainly unpredictable and uncertain as most solution are turned in problems first before another solution can be created
