Plant overhead $122‚000 D/L rate/hour $30 Youngstown has a traditional cost system. It calculates a plant-wide overhead rate by dividing total overhead costs by total direct labor hours. Assume‚ for the calculations below‚ that plant overhead is a committed (fixed) cost during the year‚ but that direct labor is a variable cost. 1. Calculate the plant-wide overhead rate. Use this rate to assign overhead costs to products and calculate the profitability of the four products. The assignment
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together borrowers and lenders of funds. They bring aggregate saving into equality with aggregate investment. Consumers have different time preferences for their consumption. Producers use capital until its marginal revenue productivity equals its opportunity cost in interest charges. These are Paretian optimal solutions for welfare maximization. Enjoy. Dr. Scott The Capital Market The previous chapter described how labor effort is not fixed in supply‚ but is a variable factor of production
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What long-term investments should the firm undertake (capital budgeting) and how will investment and finance decisions affect the firm ’s value (valuation)? How can cash be raised for the required investments? This is known as the financing decision ’ (cost of capital‚ capital structure and leasing). How will the firm manage its day-to-day cash and financial affairs (short-term financing and net working capital)? The Capital Budgeting Mini Case presents a financial decision of acquiring
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bankers‚ we are tasked with finding out the required return for expanding Apix activities to include food packaging. To support Apix leadership‚ we will explain capital structure and determine weighted average cost of capital (WACC) from the assumption provided by Mary Francis. Furthermore‚ we will show how WACC and Capital Structure can be leveraged to find out the viability of the capital project. Additionally‚ we will explain marginal cost of capital. To close‚ we will make a recommendation on the
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Capital punishment became a controversial issue lately‚ and it is a big debate in the world. The debate of capital punishment has two sides: the people who argue in favour of capital punishment and the people who argue against capital punishment. The most compelling arguments against capital punishment can be made on the basis of it doesn’t reduce crime‚ risks executions of innocent people‚ inflicted disproportionately on the poor and targeting people of colour (racist)‚ persons who commit vicious
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Capital Structure Financial Seminar DFI 605 Group Members Nidhi Batta D61/79041/2012 Caleb Musau Kivuva D61/79601/2012 Tom Mbuya Odundo D61/78251/2012 CathrineWanjiku Kamau D61/60682/2013 Daniel Mwangi Mwaniki D61/84153/2012 Ndiangui James Wambugu D61/79627/2012 Submitted to: Mr. Mirie Mwangi September - December 2013 Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the Masters in Business Administration degree at the University of Nairobi.
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"The Golem at Large: What you should know about technology" Technology can be regarded as a phenomenon with vast uncertainties. Technological change is rapid and we are struggling to keep up to date with the latest advances‚ while learning new ones and trying to prepare for the next changes proposed for the future. In order to do so‚ however‚ we need to be clear about what we mean‚ and what we consider to be a technology and evaluate some of the assumptions of our understanding of our technologically
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Law of Diminishing Returns The Law of Diminishing Returns says that when some inputs are fixed in capacity in the short run‚ increasing the variable input working with the fixed inputs would first lead to increasing additional output per additional unit of variable input‚ but eventually decreasing additional output per additional unit of variable input after the optimal capacity of the fixed input has been exceeded. Let’s look at a simple short-run production process where there is a fixed input
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Return to Normalcy Americans wanted to return to normalcy after WWI‚ known as the Great War. So they isolated themselves from the rest of the world. They did this by staying out of foreign affairs like they did before. The U.S. rejected the Treaty Versailles and the League of Nations (johndclare.net) They basically turned their backs on the rest of the world. President Harding even used "Back to normalcy" as his slogan. The United states politically‚ socially ‚culturally‚ and economically had many
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Capital Reconstruction Introduction:- The act of placing a company into voluntary liquidation and then selling its assets to another company with the same name and same stockholders‚ but with a larger capital base. It is the complete overhaul of the capital of a distressed company to save it from liquidation. The object of it is to enable the company to continue as a going concern by the removal of the burden of immediate debt‚ the attraction of additional capital and the creation of a viable financial
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