Identify (3) three revenue management “factors” that will have an impact on a hotel with respect to optimizing revenue generation. Explain and elaborate each concept.

Question 2

The table below shows the cost and revenue information of a firm.

(a) Complete the table above.

(b) Determine the price and output at equilibrium.

[6 marks]

(c) Calculate the profit or loss at equilibrium.

[4 marks]

(d) Is this firm in the short-run or long-run? Explain your answer.

[5 marks]

(e) To what type of market structure does this firm belong? Why do you say so?

[6 marks]

Question 3

(a) Explain the marginal cost and average cost. Elaborate on the relationship between the two.

[8 marks]

(b) Elaborate on the main differences between short run and long run.

[4 marks]

(c) Differentiate between economies of scale and economies of scope.

[8 marks]

Question 4

(a) Explain THREE (3) main characteristics of a perfectly competitive firm.

[6 marks]

(b) Using an appropriate diagram, demonstrate how a perfectly competitive firm achieves equilibrium in the short-run.

[7 marks]

(c) Why is the demand curve of a perfectly competitive firm horizontal? Explain your answer.

[7 marks]

Ms. Kathleen Boyd, director of logistics for the Scenic Calendar Company, wishes to evaluate

two methods of time series forecasting. She has collected quarterly calendar sales data from the

years 2003 and 2004.

2003 . 2004

Qtr. Actual Sales Qtr. Actual Sales

1 1200 1 1300

2 800 2 800

3 200 3 250

4 1000 4 1200

a.Use the moving averages technique to find forecasted sales for the third quarter of 2009 based on actual sales from the previous three quarters. (0,5p)

b. Use simple exponential smoothing to forecast each quarter’s sales in 2009, given that Mr. Clayton qualitatively forecasted 800 calendars for quarter 4, 2008. Mr. Clayton has assigned an alpha factor of 0,1 for time series sensitivity. (0,5p)

c. Repeat the simple exponential smoothing problem above (part 5b) with Mr Clayton employing an alpha factor of 0,8. (0,5p)

d. How well does the moving averages and simple exponential smoothing techniques seem to work in Mr. Clayton’s situation? In what ways do the techniques appear to fail? Explain. (0,5p)

A bank wants to know if the enrollment for new savings accounts has improved at various branches after offering a free iPhone X to customers. Use the data from "iphoneX" sheet in excel

Run the appropriate statistical test with α=0.05. Which of the following are correct? More than one answer is possible.

1. A bank has kept records of the checking balances of its 4000 customers and determined that the average daily balance of its customers is $300 with a standard deviation of $48. A random sample of 144 checking accounts is selected. Please answer the following questions.

ABCD currently has one outside drive-up teller. It takes the teller an average of four minutes (exponentially distributed) to serve a bank customer. Customers arrive at the drive-up window at the rate of 12 per hour (poisson distributed). The bank operations officer is currently analyzing the possibility of adding a second drive-up window at an annual cost of $20,000. It is assumed that arriving cars would be equally divided between both windows. The operations officer estimates that each minute’s reduction in customer waiting time would increase the bank’s revenue by $2,000 annually.

1. Is it cost effective to install a second drive-up window? (Show calculations to support your answer.)
2. What other factors should be considered in the decision besides cost?

Ewing Company sells household furniture. Customers who purchase furniture on the installment basis make payments in equal monthly installments over a two-year period, with no down payment required. Ewing's gross profit on installment sales equals 40% of the selling price of the furniture.

For financial accounting purposes, sales revenue is recognized at the time the sale is made. For income tax purposes, however, the installment method is used. There are no other book and income tax accounting differences, and Ewing's income tax rate is 20%.

If Ewing's December 31, 2021, balance sheet includes a deferred tax liability of $900,000 arising from the difference between book and tax treatment of the installment sales, it should also include installment accounts receivable of

The number of customers that visit a 24-hour local supermarket during the off-peak hours between 8am - 11am is known to be distributed as Poisson with mean 2 per hour. Determine the probability that

i. no customers will visit the supermarket between 8am - 9am.

ii. exactly one customer will visit the supermarket between 9am - 11am.

iii. exactly one customer will visit the supermarket for each of the time intervals 8am - 9am and 9am-11am.

The Russell 1000 is a stock market index consisting of the largest U.S. companies. The Dow Jones industrial Average is based on 30 large companies. The data giving the annual percentage returns for each of these stock indexes for 25 years are contained in the Excel Online file below. Construct a spreadsheet to answer the following questions.

a. Which of the following scatter diagrams accurately represents the data set?

_________Scatter diagram #1Scatter diagram #2Scatter diagram #3Scatter diagram #4

b. Compute the sample mean and standard deviation for each index (to 2 decimals).

c. Compute the sample correlation coefficient for these data (to 3 decimals).

d. Discuss similarities and differences in these two indexes.

_________There is a strong positive linear association between DJIA and Russell 1000There is a moderate positive linear association between DJIA and Russell 1000There is neither a positive nor a negative linear association between DJIA and Russell 1000There is a moderate negative linear association between DJIA and Russell 1000There is a strong negative linear association between DJIA and Russell 1000

The variance of the Russell 1000 is slightly _________largersmaller than that of the DJIA.

a. Which of the following scatter diagrams accurately represents the data set?

_________Scatter diagram #1Scatter diagram #2Scatter diagram #3Scatter diagram #4

b. Compute the sample mean and standard deviation for each index (to 2 decimals).

c. Compute the sample correlation coefficient for these data (to 3 decimals).

d. Discuss similarities and differences in these two indexes.

_________There is a strong positive linear association between DJIA and Russell 1000There is a moderate positive linear association between DJIA and Russell 1000There is neither a positive nor a negative linear association between DJIA and Russell 1000There is a moderate negative linear association between DJIA and Russell 1000There is a strong negative linear association between DJIA and Russell 1000

The variance of the Russell 1000 is slightly _________largersmaller than that of the DJIA.