Question

Seeing forward to next year, if Chester's current cash balance is $19,378 (000) as well as cash flows from operations next period are unchanged from this period as well as Chester takes ONLY the subsequent actions relating to cash flows from investing as well as financing activities-

Issues 100 (000) shares of stock at the current stock price

Issues $200 (000) of long-term debt

Pays $40 (000) in dividends

Which of the subsequent activities will expose Chester to the most risk of needing an emergency loan?

Select: 1

Purchases assets at a cost of $15,000 (000)

Sells $5,000 (000) of their Long-term assets

Retires $20,000 (000) in long-term debt

Liquidates the entire inventory

A productivity index of 110% denotes that a company's labour costs would have been 10% higher if it hadn't made production improvements. Suppose that Digby had a productivity index of 112% as well as that Baldwin had a productivity index of 103%. Now mention to the Income Statements in the Annual Report for Digby as well as Baldwin. Using the labour costs shown in the Income Statements how much more did Digby save in direct labour costs associated to Baldwin by having a higher productivity index?

Select: 1

$3,499

$2,863

$3,340

$3,181

Investing $2,000,000 in TQM's Channel Support Systems initiative will at a minimum increase demand for your products 3.0% in this and in all future rounds. (Denote to the TQM Initiative worksheet in the CompXM Decisions menu.) Looking at the Round 0 Inquirer for Andrews, last year's sales were $163,290,917. Presumptuous similar sales next year, the 3.0% increase in demand will provide $4,898,727 of additional revenue. With the general contribution margin of 34.1%, after direct costs this revenue will add $1,670,466 to the bottom line. For simplicity presumes that the demand increase as well as margins will remain at last year's levels. How long will it take to realise payback on the initial $2,000,000 TQM investment rounded to the nearest month?

Select: 1

14 months

TQM investment will not have an important financial impact

5 months

10 months

From a marginal analysis perspective what is the inventory carry cost for Andrews if the company carries one additional unit of Ate in inventory at the end?

Select: 1

$3.17

$13.57

$6.34

$1.63

In three years assuming the competitive environment leftovers unchanged how numerous units of Bam will Baldwin be selling in the Nano market segment?

Select: 1

464

687

603

764

Assuming no direct factory overhead costs (that is inventory carry costs) as well as $3 million dollars in combined promotion as well as sales budget the Bell product manager wishes to achieve a product contribution margin of 35%. Assumed their product currently is priced at $35.00, what would they need to limit the material besides labour costs to?

Select: 1

$22.75

$21.00

$24.50

$23.00

Which description best fits Chester in your industry? For clarity

- A differentiator competes through good designs high awareness as well as easy accessibility.

- A cost leader competes on price by reducing costs as well as passing the savings to customers.

- A broad player competes in all parts of the market.

- A niche player competes in selected parts of the market.

Which of these four statements best defines this competitor?

Select: 1

Chester is a broad cost leader

Chester is a niche cost leader

Chester is a niche differentiator

Chester is a broad differentiator

Chester's Elite product Creak has an awareness of 72%. Chester's Creak product manager for the Elite segment is determined to have more awareness for Creak than Andrews' Elite product Attic. She identifies that the first $1M in promotion generates 22% new awareness, the second million adds 23% more as well as the third million adds another 5%. She as well knows one-third of Creak's existing awareness is lost every year. Assuming that Attic's awareness stays the same next year (77%), out of the promotion budgets below, what is the minimum Chester's Elite product manager must spend in promotion to earn more awareness than Andrews' Attic product?

Select: 1

2M

Nothing

1M

3M

Select all of the subsequent statements that are true four years from now in the year 2016.

Select: 2

The Nano segment will demand 5,405 thousand units

The Thrift segment will demand 7,744 thousand units

The Core segment will demand 9,774 thousand units

The Elite segment will demand 5,871 thousand units