Answer:
4 years
Explanation:
Payback period is the time in which a project returns back the initial investment in the form of net cash flow.
Initial Investment = $280,000
Net Income = $20,000
To calculate the net cash flows add bask the depreciation expense in Net income each year.
Depreciation = ($280,000 - $30,000) / 5 = $50,000
Net Cash Flow = $20,000 + $50,000 = $70,000
Payback period = Initial Investment / yearly cash flow = $280,000 / $70,000 = 4 years
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Answer: D) increase in prices</h3>
An increase in prices will reduce demand, and not supply. You could have an increase in prices due to a shortage, but price increases could also be from a number of other factors, one of which is demand increasing.
Meanwhile, war, scarcity and extreme weather all are possible factors of a shortage. So we can cross choices A,B,C off the list.
Answer:
$9,000
Explanation:
Total variable cost of manufacturing the components are as follows;
Direct materials $21,000
Direct labor 6,000
Variable overhead 3,000
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Total $30,000
If we purchase the cost is $39,000 and the company is indifferent if they will manufacture or purchase. Therefore;
$39,000 - 30,000 = $9,000 (unavoidable fixed cost)
Answer: $700,000
Explanation: Retained earnings is the amount of earnings left with the company after paying for dividends of common stockholders.
Retained earnings break even can be computed as follows :-

where,
retained earnings = net income (1- payout ratio)
= $525,000 (1 - 60%)
= $210,000
therefore,

=$700,000
Answer:
This is a very unlikely situation, since the plant must be really large and the river probably didn't carry a lot of water in the first place. But even if this was possible, it would be illegal for a company to use 100% of the natural resources available. No law or regulation (municipal, state or federal) would allow such thing to happen and assuming it got to court, the court would rule against the company.
Since you need an environmental impact report before you start building a factory, then it would be unlikely that the factory or plant was legally authorized to operate in the first place. The only option is that they built a dam and that is highly regulated.