| Nova Company’s total overhead cost at various levels of activity are presented below: |
| Month | Machine-Hours | Total Overhead Cost |
| April | 50,000 | $184,400 |
| May | 40,000 | $160,000 |
| June | 60,000 | $208,800 |
| July | 70,000 | $233,200 |
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Assume that the total overhead cost above consists of utilities, supervisory salaries, and maintenance. The breakdown of these costs at the 40,000 machine-hour level of activity is: |
| Utilities (variable) | $ | 52,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Supervisory salaries (fixed) | 45,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maintenance (mixed) | 63,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total overhead cost | $ | 160,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nova Company’s total overhead cost at various levels of activity are presented below: |
| Month | Machine-Hours | Total Overhead Cost |
| April | 48,000 | $196,100 |
| May | 38,000 | $170,600 |
| June | 58,000 | $221,600 |
| July | 68,000 | $247,100 |
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Assume that the total overhead cost above consists of utilities, supervisory salaries, and maintenance. The breakdown of these costs at the 38,000 machine-hour level of activity is: |
| Utilities (variable) | $ | 57,000 |
| Supervisory salaries (fixed) | 54,000 | |
| Maintenance (mixed) | 59,600 | |
| Total overhead cost | $ | 170,600 |
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Nova Company’s management wants to break down the maintenance cost into its variable and fixed cost elements. |
| Required: |
| 1. |
Estimate how much of the $247,100 of overhead cost in July was maintenance cost. (Hint: To do this, it may be helpful to first determine how much of the $247,100 consisted of utilities and supervisory salaries. Think about the behavior of variable and fixed costs!) (Do not round intermediate calculations.) |
| 2. |
Using the high-low method, estimate a cost formula for maintenance. (Do not round your intermediate calculations. Round the "Variable cost per unit" to 2 decimal places.) |
| 3. |
Express the company’s total overhead cost in the linear equation form Y = a + bX. (Do not round your intermediate calculations. Round the "Variable cost per unit" to 2 decimal places.) |
| 4. |
What total overhead cost would you expect to be incurred at an activity level of 43,000 machine-hours? (Do not round intermediate calculations.) |
In: Accounting
The owner of Gino’s Pizza restaurant chain believes that if a restaurant is located near a college campus, then there is a linear relationship between sales and the size of the student population. Suppose data are collected from a sample of n = 10 Gino’s Pizza restaurants located near college campuses with the following reported sample statistics:
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X= Population (1000s) |
Y = Sales ($1000s) |
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Sample Mean |
14 |
130 |
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Sample Standard Deviation |
7.944 |
41.806 |
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Sample Variance |
63.111 |
1747.778 |
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Sample Covariance |
315.556 |
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We want to find the equation of the least-squares regression line predicting quarterly pizza sales (y) from student population (x).
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Source of Variation |
SS |
df |
MS |
F |
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Regression |
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TOTAL |
In: Statistics and Probability
One of the key questions decision makers must ask when considering whether to invest in a new technology is “what will the return on investment (ROI) be?” In other words, will this technology pay for itself, and when?
Consider an amusement park called FunTown. Funtown is a popular amusement park but because of long entrance lines to the park, yearly attendance has been flat (no increase or decrease) for the last 3 years. Unless something is done to alleviate the long entrance lines, attendance is not expected to increase for the next 3 years.
Funtown is considering implementing a handheld scanner system that can allow employees to walk around the front gates and accept credit card payment and print tickets on the spot. With the new scanner system, Funtown anticipates selling 2.4 million tickets in the next year (year 1), with a 4% increase (over the previous year) for the 2 years after that (years 2 and 3). Without the handheld scanner, Funtown anticipates selling 2.4 million tickets per year for the next 3 years.
The handheld scanner system is not without cost. Entrance to Funtown costs 35 dollars. For every ticket sold with the online scanner system, there is an expense of 6% of the ticket price.
It will take a while for the new system to catch on. Funtown estimates that 10% of year 1 attendance tickets will be sold using the online scanner. They also estimate that will grow to 20% and 30% in years 2 and 3 respectively.
Your assignment is to do a 3 year analysis of this proposal and determine if and when this scanner system will pay for itself.
Specifically, you are to calculate the net revenue of Funtown for each of the next 3 years, with, and without the new scanner system, and calculate the difference.
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In: Economics
Give examples of co-branding and ingredient branding practices in the hotel and restaurant industry. What are the advantages and disadvantages of these practices?
In: Accounting
Offer suggestions on how revenue management can be used to actually enhance guest loyalty in the hotel and/or travel industry
In: Operations Management
Scenario: A local park is being converted into a COVID-19 testing site.
Describe the internal and external stakeholders, and their importance.
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He Park Company owns 80% of the outstanding common stock of the Sea Company. Park is about to lease a machine with a 5-year life to the Sea Company. The lease would begin January 1, 20X3.
Required:
Explain the adjustments that will be required in the consolidation process if each of the following occurs.
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Let x be a random variable that represents the weights
in kilograms (kg) of healthy adult female deer (does) in December
in a national park. Then x has a distribution that is
approximately normal with mean μ = 52.0 kg and standard
deviation σ = 9.0 kg. Suppose a doe that weighs less than
43 kg is considered undernourished.
(a) What is the probability that a single doe captured (weighed and
released) at random in December is undernourished? (Round your
answer to four decimal places.)
(b) If the park has about 2850 does, what number do you expect
to be undernourished in December? (Round your answer to the nearest
whole number.)
(c) To estimate the health of the December doe population, park rangers use the rule that the average weight of n = 80 does should be more than 49 kg. If the average weight is less than 49 kg, it is thought that the entire population of does might be undernourished. What is the probability that the average weight x for a random sample of 80 does is less than 49 kg (assuming a healthy population)? (Round your answer to four decimal places.)
(d) Compute the probability that
x < 53.1 kg for 80 does (assume a healthy population). (Round your answer to four decimal places.)
Suppose park rangers captured, weighed, and released 80 does in December, and the average weight was
x= 53.1 kg. Do you think the doe population is undernourished or not? Explain.
In: Statistics and Probability