QUESTION 1:

Davie's Hotel budgeted 800 room sales for the week ended June 24th. The estimated average price per room was $18.50. The actual average price per room was 10 percent greater than anticipated, while room sales in units were 10 percent less than forecasted.

Complete the following table for the Hotel’s revenue variance analysis.

A) Calculate the budget variance.

B) Calculate the price variance.

C) Calculate the volume variance.

D) Calculate the price-volume variance.

The table below contains a list of species and their abundances for two grassland communities around Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. Use the below data to answer the following question.

Using the Shannon diversity index, what is p_i for Sporobolus ioclados?

14. What are the highest tax rates for each of the following scenarios?

____. Operating income from a hotel earned by a foreign corporation (excluding branch profits tax)

____. Interest income earned by a foreign corporation from a US borrower

____. Net rental income earned by an U.S. individual (exclude the passthrough deduction)

____. Capital gain earned by an U.S. individual

____. Interest income earned by a U.S. corporation

____. Capital gain earned by an U.S. corporation

____. Depreciation recapture on the sale of U.S. real estate (Section 1250 property) for an individual

____. Depreciation recapture on the sale of U.S. real estate (Section 1245 property) for an individual

Using the demand and supply diagrams (one for each market), show what short-run changes in price and quantity would be expected in the following markets if terrorism-related worries about air safety cause travelers to shy away from air travel. Each graph should contain the original and new demand and supply curves, and the original and new equilibrium prices and quantities. For each market, write one sentence explaining why each curve shifts or does not shift.

The market for air travel.

The market for rail travel.

The market for hotel rooms in Hawaii.

The market for gasoline.

1. What, if anything, does each of the following quotations tell you about the demand elasticity? Explain.

a. "I drink two cups of coffee every morning regardless of the price."

b. "Attendance at the ball park went down when they increased the ticket price, but in spite of the decreased attendance, more money was taken in.”

c. "When the newspaper raised its price, the number of newspapers sold dropped by 20%.

d. My budget is $10 a week for cigarettes. I don’t care what happens to the price of cigarettes, once my budget is gone, I chew gum!

Sunny Park Tailors has been asked to make three different types of wedding suits for separate customers. The table below highlights the time taken in hours for cutting and sewing? (process 1) and delivery? (process 2) of each of the suits.

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Times Taken for Different Activities (hours)

Suit Cut and Sew Deliver

1 7 2

2 4 3

3 5 6

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For the schedule developed using the? Johnson's rule, the total length of time taken to complete the three suits? (including delivery)? =

Of the two developed? schedules, which rule gets the schedule finished sooner.??????????????????????????

In an old-fashioned amusement park ride, passengers stand inside a 5.0-m-diameter hollow steel cylinder with their backs against the wall. The cylinder begins to rotate about a vertical axis. Then the floor on which the passengers are standing suddenly drops away! If all goes well, the passengers will "stick" to the wall and not slide. Clothing has a static coefficient of friction against steel in the range 0.62 to 1.0 and a kinetic coefficient in the range 0.40 to 0.70. A sign next to the entrance says "No children under 30 kg allowed."

Q: What is the minimum angular speed, in rpm, for which the ride is safe?

In an old-fashioned amusement park ride, passengers stand inside a 4.5-m-diameter hollow steel cylinder with their backs against the wall. The cylinder begins to rotate about a vertical axis. Then the floor on which the passengers are standing suddenly drops away! If all goes well, the passengers will "stick" to the wall and not slide. Clothing has a static coefficient of friction against steel in the range 0.65 to 1.0 and a kinetic coefficient in the range 0.40 to 0.70. A sign next to the entrance says "No children under 30 kg allowed." What is the minimum angular speed, in rpm, for which the ride is safe?

On September 7​, the billing​ date, Verna had a balance due of ​$565.85 on her credit card. Assume that the interest rate is​ 1.1% per month. Suppose that​ Verna's bank uses the average daily balance method. Answer parts​ (a) through​ (d). Sept. 11 Payment ​$280.00 Sept. 23 ​Charge: Airline ticket ​$332.00 Sept. 24 ​Charge: Hotel bill ​$190.01 Oct. 2 ​Charge: Clothing ​$84.91 ​a) Determine​ Verna's average daily balance for the billing period from September 7 to October 7. The average daily balance for the billing period was ​$

*I am seeking an answer to Question 1 B.*

ABC company is considering producing a new range of smartphones that will require it to build a

new factory. Feasibility studies have been done on the factory which cost $5 million. The studies

have found the following:

1. The factory will cost $25 million and will have a useful life of 20 years.

2. The land where the factory will go is currently used as a carpark for workers and it is assumed that the company will have to pay $200000 per year for their workers to park in a nearby carpark.

3. The factory will be depreciated on a straight line basis and will have a salvage value of $0 but it is believed that most of it can be sold for scrap after 20 years for $50000.

4. Due to the nature of the business they are in, they will have to perform some environmental tests to make sure that some of the chemicals they are using are not entering the ground water around the factory. These tests will be performed every 5 years and cost $625000.

5. Through the building of this factory and the selling of the phones it produces, it’s revenue will increase by $5 million in year 1 and remain at this level for the operational life of the factory.

6. The extra costs that the company accrues per year due to the project are $435000 for labour, $50000 for overhead like power and water bills and marketing costs for the new line of phones will be $500000 per year but will decrease by $15000 per year as the phone gains greater penetration.

7. The company’s current cost of capital is 8% per year.

8. The tax rate is 30%.

9. The project requires an initial investment in working capital of $1000000 that is returned

   in year 20.

Use the above information to answer the following (IN EXCEL):

A. Calculate the free cash flows that come from this project for the 20 years it is operational. ​

B. Calculate the NPV, IRR and payback period of the project. Should they go ahead with the project?