Minden Company manufactures a high-quality wooden birdhouse that sells for $25
per unit. Variable costs are $12 per unit, and fixed costs total $210,000. The
company sold 30,000 birdhouses to customers during 2020. The president of
Minden Company believes the following changes should be made in 2021:

1. the selling price of the birdhouse should be reduced by 20%

2. increase advertising by $33,000

Assume these changes are made. Calculate the number of units Minden Company
must sell in 2021 in order to earn a net income that is 40% larger than the
net income earned in 2020.

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Solano Company has sales of $700,000, cost of goods sold of $470,000, other operating expenses of $50,000, average invested assets of $2,100,000, and a hurdle rate of 9 percent.

Required:
1. Determine Solano’s return on investment (ROI), investment turnover, profit margin, and residual income.
2. Several possible changes that Solano could face in the upcoming year follow. Determine each scenario’s impact on Solano’s ROI and residual income. (Note: Treat each scenario independently.)
a. Company sales and cost of goods sold increase by 30 percent.
b. Operating expenses decrease by $8,000.
c. Operating expenses increase by 10 percent.
d. Average invested assets increase by $400,000.
e. Solano changes its hurdle rate to 15 percent.

You are an economics advisor to a U.S. Senator. The Senator is interested in sponsoring legislation to address the impact of rapidly rising medical costs, and has commissioned you to provide a briefing paper on the subject.

You know medical costs have risen faster than other consumer costs over the past decade, and decide to utilize indifference curve analysis to demonstrate how the cost changes have impacted the Senator's constituents.

Provide an explanation as if it were a briefing paper you will deliver to the Senator. In it:

- demonstrate and document the trends in medical costs

- assume the Senator is not an economist and is not familiar with indifference curve analysis

- provide some legislative suggestions to the Senator that utilize your economic knowledge

QUESTION: Utilize indifference curve analysis to demonstrate how the medical cost changes have impacted the Senator's constituents

Over the last 50 years the financial reporting systems have dramatically changed and will continue to change as the financial world faces changes such as globalization, changing regulations and the increased use of technology. The accounting profession must be ready to not only face these changes but to also adapt to them, providing relevant and reliable information to the many internal and external users of financial and managerial accounting reports.

It is important to understand the difference between managerial and financial accounting reports.

You are the chief executive officer of a multinational corporation that operates wholly owned subsidiaries in several countries. One of the company’s manufacturing plants is located in Europe. As CEO, respond to the following questions in 400-600 words:

What types of internal and external accounting reports will you use in the process of making decisions?

How will the reports differ for a multi-national corporation?

We are evaluating a project that costs $2,040,000, has a 7-year life, and has no salvage value. Assume that depreciation is straight-line to zero over the life of the project. Sales are projected at 89,700 units per year. Price per unit is $38.67, variable cost per unit is $23.80, and fixed costs are $851,000 per year. The tax rate is 22 percent, and we require a return of 10 percent on this project

. a. Calculate the base-case operating cash flow and NPV.

b. What is the sensitivity of NPV to changes in the sales figure?

c. If there is a 400-unit decrease in projected sales, how much would the NPV change?

d. What is the sensitivity of OCF to changes in the variable cost figure?

e. If there is a $1 decrease in estimated variable costs, how much would the OCF change?

Look at situation where there are 2 molecules of the same protein, which means same primary sequence. In addition they fold at the same time in the same funnel. Each protein, which is represented by a marble, is predicted to take a special path as it moves down the funnel during the folding process. While it folds, it is possible that the two proteins collide on the way down the funnel, and as a result of this collision, one or both of those proteins misfolds (forms a kinetic trap). As with any collision, energy is exchanged between the colliding molecules, and we can assume that the energy changes as a result of the collision contribute to potential misfolding. How can one represent how energy changes (thermodynamic state functions) in the funnel model as collision has to take place for both proteins to account for the resulting misfolds?

I have a lab assignment that I'm not sure how to do. The experiment is a cart moving 60cm distance and there is a fan on top of it making it have a mass of .56kg. Every trial there is 100g added to the cart. For this part, the time is kept the same.

1. If the force provided by the fan was the same for each run and we have chosen the same time interval, how does the impulse from that force compare from one run to another? Make sure that you use the definition of impulse ( J=Favg∆t) in your explanation.

2. Will the change in momentum the same (or nearly the same) for each of the runs?

Extra questions not related to experiment.

1. What do you conclude about the relationship of work and changes in kinetic energy?

2. What do you conclude about the relationship of impulse and changes in momentum?

In year 1, a company makes xxx sales and xxx expenses. The end result is negative net income. In year 2, the company's sales and expenses are the same and thus still have negative income.

In year 1, the company sold its assets and reduced some current liabilities, resulting in positive cash flow in operating activities. Investing activities were marginally positive with an increase in ppe. Cash flow from financing activities was negative and the overall balance sheet changes as negative. In year 2, the company saw negative cash flows in operating and investing activities, but a positive cash flow in financing activities. The overall balance sheet changes were positive due to a substantial increase in finance activities.

Compared to year 1, how is the health of the company in Year 2?

A new instruction is to be included in our core MIPS instruction subset.

This new true-op instruction is addm rt,disp(rs) which computes the sum of the contents of a memory word plus the contents of the rt register and places the sum back into the rt register.

a) Show the MIPS machine code format required for this new true-op instruction.

b) Are any changes to the multi-cycle datapath required to support this new true-op instruction? If so, describe the required changes.

c) Describe how the FSM (finite state machine) for our MIPS core instruction subset requires to be modified to support this new true-op instruction while continuing to support the other instructions within the subset without changing their behavior. In particular, what new or modified states, control signals and transitions are required?

There are many different types of market baskets that economists measure. For example, the market basket for consumers—called the Consumer Price Index—tracks the prices associated with the typical consumer’s purchases of goods and services. The Producer Price Index tracks the prices that firms receive when selling their goods and services.

Indicate the appropriate market basket to use in each of the following instances.

Consumer Price Index:

Producer Price Index: