Nick’s novelties, inc., is considering the purchase of new electronic games to place in its amusement houses. the games would cost a total of $720,000, have a fifteen-year useful life, and have a total salvage value of $72,000. the company estimates that annual revenues and expenses associated with the games would be as follows: revenues $ 250,000 less operating expenses: commissions to amusement houses $ 80,000 insurance 40,000 depreciation 43,200 maintenance 40,000 203,200 net operating income $ 46,800 exercise 12-8 part 1 required: 1a. compute the payback period associated with the new electronic games. 1b. assume that nick’s novelties, inc., will not purchase new games unless they provide a payback period of five years or less. would the company purchase the new games?

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Afirm wants to hire a project manager (pm) at a salary of $100,000. 30% of pms have high ability, and 70% of pms have low ability. high ability pms generate $120,000 in revenue and low ability pms generate $80,000 in revenue. in addition to differences in productivity, high and low ability pms have different outside offers. if a high ability pm is not hired by the firm, she can work for another company at a salary of $80,000. if the low ability pm is not hired by the firm, she can work for another company for $70,000. high ability pms are also able to get a project management professional (pmp) certification at a cost of $1,000. low ability pms are unable to get a pmp certification (they would fail the test). the firm is not able to observe a pm’s ability, but is able to observe and verify whether or not the pm has a pmp certificate.(a) draw the extensive form of the game.expert answer

When many scrum teams are working on the same product, should all of their increments be integrated every sprint?