Bubba's Custom Shrimp Catering uses activity-based costing to determine the cost of its catering events. The firm has two activity cost pools: cooking (activity rate is $500 per catering event) and serving (activity rate is $12 per plate). The firm currently has 25 catering events a year, with an average of 50 plates per event. It also incurs about $400 in direct costs for each event. The firm has four opportunities to improve its processes (listed below in the answer choices). None of these process improvements is expected to affect revenue. Each process improvement costs $2,500. Which of the following is the MOST profitable process improvement (read the answer choices carefully)? Selected Answer: c. Reduce direct costs per event by 25% Answers: a. Reduce the number of plates per event by 20%. b. Reduce serving activity rate by 25% c. Reduce direct costs per event by 25% d. Reduce cooking activity rate by 25%

A circus act involves launching a human being from a cannon resting on the floor. The human has a 50 kg mass and is launched at a speed of 12 m/s, in a direction 30° up from the horizontal. The cannon has a mass of 110 kg. (a) Considering the system as cannon + human, state why the x-component of the momentum is conserved. (b) Find the recoil speed of the cannon. (c) It would be dangerous to use explosives, so the performer is actually launched from a loaded spring inside the barrel, compressed 1.7 m from its equilibrium position. Find the spring constant needed to achieve the launch + recoil. (d) You will note that the y-component of the net momentum is NOT conserved, since the performer flies up in the air. Why is the x-component conserved but the y-component not?

what are Logitech challenges

Strategic Management Edition 4. - Frank T. Rothaermel

IKEA - Chapter 10

Is there any special consideration a firm should have for its “home country”? Is it ethical to keep profits outside the home country in offshore accounts to avoid paying domestic corporate taxes?

Java

Write a valid Java method called printReverse that takes a String as a parameter and prints out the reverse of the String. Your method should not return anything. Make sure you use the appropriate return type.

How do you plan to design your own workshop​? Ellaborate with examples. (500 words)

Economic 315: Money, Banking and Financial Market

1. Is there any relationship between increase in corporate debt and corporate investing? Explain.

2. What is the alternative to investing that money in their corporations?

3. What is the purpose of stock buybacks?

4. Do you think stock buybacks are the good for the economy? Why or why not?

When discussing CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons), what are the properties of that chemical (such as water solubility, vapor pressure, etc.) that determines its migration in our environment?

The Path to Good Ethics Starts in Human Resources. Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Please explain in detail and provide examples.

1. Suppose that each day, Northern, Central, and Southern California each use 100 billion gallons of water. Also assume that Northern California and Central California have available 120 billion gallons of water, whereas Southern California has 40 billion gallons of water available. The cost of shipping 1 billion gallons of water between the three regions is as follows. Also, you will not be able to meet all the demand for water, so assume that each billion gallons of unmet demand incurs the following shortage costs:

How should California’s water be distributed to minimize the sum of shipping and shortage costs and what is the total cost?

1. You are to do a preliminary design study for a small demonstration steam turbine power plant.
- Steam will be provided by a small steam generator fired by natural gas.   - Your system will take in steam at 30 bar and 400 oC.
- The steam passes through a two stage turbine. At a pressure of 10 bars, the steam leaves the first stage of the turbine and will pass through a reheat loop in the steam generator which will boost the temperature back up to 400 oC at this pressure. The steam will then enter the second stage of the turbine.
- When the steam leaves the turbine, the quality should be at least 95% at the turbine exit / condenser inlet.
- The design condenser pressure is 0.70 bar.   
- Heat is removed from the condenser and rejected to the environment through a cooling tower.
a) Assuming isentropic expansion, what are the temperature, enthalpy, and entropy of the steam when it leaves the first stage of the turbine? (5 pts)

b) What are the enthalpy and the entropy of the steam as it leaves the reheater and enters the second stage of the turbine? How much heat (kJ/kg) goes into the steam in the reheat process? (10 pts)

c) Based on an isentropic expansion, what will the quality be at the exit? Will it meet this design limit? (10 pts)
For the following parts use the design turbine power output of 2.5 kW.
d) What mass flow rate is required? (10 pts)

e) At what rate must heat be produced by natural gas burners in the steam generator to produce the steam at the turbine inlet, and how much heat must be produced to reheat the steam between the stages? For a heating rate range of 950-1150 BTU/scf and a cost of $8 per 100 cubic feet, what is the fuel cost per hour to run this unit? (10 pts)

f) What is the feed water pump power demand, and what is the BWR? (10 pts)

source: /** * A class to model an item (or set of items) in an * auction: a batch. */ public class BeerBatch { // A unique identifying number. private final int number; // A description of the batch. private String description; // The current highest offer for this batch. private Offer highestOffer; /** * Construct a BeerBatch, setting its number and description. * @param number The batch number. * @param description A description of this batch. */ public BeerBatch(int number, String description) { this.number = number; this.description = description; this.highestOffer = null; } /** * Attempt an offer for this batch. A successful offer * must have a value higher than any existing offer. * @param offer A new offer. * @return true if successful, false otherwise */ public boolean bidFor(Offer offer) { if(highestOffer == null) { // There is no previous bid. highestOffer = offer; return true; } else if(offer.getAmount() > highestOffer.getAmount()) { // The bid is better than the previous one. highestOffer = offer; return true; } else { // The bid is not better. return false; } } /** * @return A string representation of this batch's details. */ public String batchDetail() { return "TO DO"; } /** * @return The batch's number. */ public int getNumber() { return number; } /** * @return The batch's description. */ public String getDescription() { return description; } /** * @return The highest offer for this lot. * This could be null if there is * no current bid. */ public Offer getHighestOffer() { return highestOffer; } } Question: Implement the method batchDetail() in the BeerBatch class. Below you see the details of the first three batches created in the BearAuction constructor. For your string use the same format as below! 1: 1892 Traditional Bid: 14 by Juliet (female, 27) 2: Iceberg Lager No bid 3: Rhinegold Altbier Bid: 17 by William (male, 22).