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Problem 10-21 Cost-Cutting Proposals [LO2] Masters Machine Shop is considering a four-year project to improve its...

Problem 10-21 Cost-Cutting Proposals [LO2]

Masters Machine Shop is considering a four-year project to improve its production efficiency. Buying a new machine press for $450,000 is estimated to result in $184,000 in annual pretax cost savings. The press falls in the MACRS five-year class, and it will have a salvage value at the end of the project of $74,000. The press also requires an initial investment in spare parts inventory of $33,000, along with an additional $3,750 in inventory for each succeeding year of the project. The shop’s tax rate is 23 percent and its discount rate is 10 percent. (MACRS schedule)

Calculate the NPV of this project. (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)


Should the company buy and install the machine press?

  • No

  • Yes

In: Finance

Privacy program, lab2pr2.py Write an automated password-hiding program that could be used in automatic password manager....

Privacy program, lab2pr2.py Write an automated password-hiding program that
could be used in automatic password manager. The program will first read user
passwords, one at a time, and store them in a list. When the user enters an empty
string (just hits enter), they are finished with the input. The program should
then replace each password with a string of * corresponding to the length of the

original password. As the output, the program should print the original list and
the resulting list.
For instance, here’s the output from a sample run of your program:
Please enter a password (press [enter] to finish): Tulane123
Please enter a password (press [enter] to finish): Bruff
Please enter a password (press [enter] to finish): LBCLBC
Please enter a password (press [enter] to finish):
[’Tulane123’, ’Bruff’, ’LBCLBC’]
[’*********’, ’*****’, ’******’]

use python

In: Computer Science

**********Java language************ 1-      (Conversions between Celsius and Fahrenheit) Write a class that contains the following two methods:...

**********Java language************

1-      (Conversions between Celsius and Fahrenheit) Write a class that contains the following two methods:

/** Convert from Celsius to Fahrenheit */

public static double celsiusToFahrenheit(double celsius)

/** Convert from Fahrenheit to Celsius */

public static double fahrenheitToCelsius(double fahrenheit)

The formula for the conversion is:

Celsius = (5.0 / 9) * (Fahrenheit – 32)

Fahrenheit = (9.0 / 5) * Celsius + 32

Program output should be like:

If you want to convert from Fahrenheit To Celsius press 0 vice versa press 1:

0

Enter the degree in Fahrenheit: 22

The degree in Celsius: -5.5

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.

If you want to convert from Fahrenheit To Celsius press 0 vice versa press 1:

1

Enter the degree in Celsius: 33

The degree in Celsius: 91.4

In: Computer Science

Problem 8-11 Cost-Cutting Proposals Blue Line Machine Shop is considering a four-year project to improve its...

Problem 8-11 Cost-Cutting Proposals

Blue Line Machine Shop is considering a four-year project to improve its production efficiency. Buying a new machine press for $560,000 is estimated to result in $235,000 in annual pretax cost savings. The press falls in the MACRS five-year class, and it will have a salvage value at the end of the project of $94,000. The press also requires an initial investment in spare parts inventory of $29,000, along with an additional $3,400 in inventory for each succeeding year of the project. The shop’s tax rate is 35 percent and the project's required return is 9 percent. Refer to Table 8.3.

Calculate the NPV of this project. (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)
  
NPV           $

Should the company buy and install the machine press?
  

  • No

  • Yes

In: Finance

Suppose that you have been called as an expert witness for a defendant accused of robbing...

Suppose that you have been called as an expert witness for a defendant accused of robbing a bank. Prior to your being called as a witness, two bank tellers confidently identified the defendant as the robber. What research evidence might you introduce to the jury to caution them about assuming that the defendant must be guilty because he or she was identified in court?

In: Psychology

1.         Borden Road Music is producing CDs for five (5) artists, Sarah D, Tom Boy, Uber...

1.         Borden Road Music is producing CDs for five (5) artists, Sarah D, Tom Boy, Uber Lyft, Vinny Joe, and Wanda, and X-terra. Borden Road Music makes the following unit profits on each artist’s CD as follows

Artist

Sarah D

Tom Boy

Uber Lyft

Vinny Joe

Wanda

Profit/CD

$0.58

$0.43

$0.25

$0.17

$0.28

Each artist needs recording studio time and mastering studio time. There are 10,000 Minutes of available mastering time and 25,000 minutes of available recording time.

Artist

Sarah D

Tom Boy

Uber Lyft

Vinny Joe

Wanda

Recording/CD

52

48

40

60

75

Mastering/CD

28

24

18

12

5

Each artists CD must be packaged after production. There is 2,000 minutes of packaging time.

Artist

Sarah D

Tom Boy

Uber Lyft

Vinny Joe

Wanda

Package/CD

1.5

1.25

1.0

0.75

1.5

Each artist will need promotion time. There are only 50,000 minutes of promotional time available.

Artist

Sarah D

Tom Boy

Uber Lyft

Vinny Joe

Wanda

Time/CD

25

15

10

5

1

Marketing has the following consumer behavior information:

            i.          There are already 200 copies of Uber Lyft CDs pre-ordered.

            ii.         There are already 100 copies of Vinny Joe CDs pre-ordered.

            iii.       For every 2 Sarah D CDs sold there is a Tom Boy CD sold.

As a quality control measure Wanda CDs cannot exceed half of the other CDs produced.

a.         Formulate the standard form of Borden Road Music’s linear program in the table below.

b.         Use excel to solve the linear program and attach the Solution worksheet, the Sensitivity Analysis worksheet.

c.         What happens to Borden Road’s profits if they gain 100 minutes of Mastering time?

            Profits:                                           .

d.         What happens to Borden Road’s profits if they lose 100 minutes of recording time?

            Profits:                                           .

Objective:

Constraints:

1:

2:

3:

4:

5:

6:

7:

8:

Non-negativity:

In: Math

You are one of the developers on a team of 10 working in-house for a large...

You are one of the developers on a team of 10 working in-house for a large corporation. You've been working on a new "Press Releases" page on your company's website for a few weeks. The project involves the company's Public Relations department, and the company's Social Media team. The purpose of the page is to share the company's most recent press release, and includes a list of the company's officers, and their photos. One of those company officers, the Chief Financial Officer, communicates directly to you that they would like to include an archive of the last 10 years' worth of press releases.

PLEASE WRITE 2 PARAGRAPHS TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS AND EXPLAIN YOUR RESPONSES TO THE SCENERIO:

Regardless of what you think of this idea personally, what action would you take - would you implement their request and add the 10 years' worth of press releases in an Archive on the new Press Releases page as requested? Would you consult your contacts in the PR & Social Media department first? Would you refer the CFO to a project manager? Some combination of those?

In: Computer Science

Covid 19 is caused by a novel coronavirus strain, not seen in the human population until...

Covid 19 is caused by a novel coronavirus strain, not seen in the human population until now. Describe the clonal selection theory. How might clonal selection be impacting the spread of this disease and human resistance to infection?  


In: Biology

In the novel how the markets fail by John Cassidy, 1. According to rational expectations, anticipated...

In the novel how the markets fail by John Cassidy, 1. According to rational expectations, anticipated government intervention will not have any impact on the economy. Why? What does the empirical data say about this idea?

In: Economics

What are the benefits and drawbacks of expended genetic code relate to  designer microbes and novel engineered...

What are the benefits and drawbacks of expended genetic code relate to  designer microbes and novel engineered proteins.

whether complex genetic code leads to complex forms of life and how will this aid in making designer microbes?

In: Nursing