Pappy's toys makes two models of a metal toy—standard and deluxe. both models are produced on a single machine. the price and costs of the two models appear as follows. standard deluxe price per unit $ 115 $ 135 variable cost per unit $ 50 $ 54 machine hours per unit 0.5 1.5 the one machine that used to produce both models has a capacity of 105,000 machine-hours per quarter. fixed manufacturing costs per quarter are $875,000. required: a. suppose that the maximum unit sales in a quarter that pappy's can achieve is 230,000 units of each product. how many units of each model should pappy's produce in a quarter? b. suppose that the maximum unit sales in a quarter that pappy's can achieve is 127,500 units of each product. how many units of each model should pappy's produce in a quarter?

Prairie, inc. produces one single product. it has an annual capacity of 10,000 units, but currently uses only 80% of it. each unit is sold for $50 and requires direct material worth $30 and direct labor worth $5. manufacturing overhead cost is $10 per unit of which 70% is variable. should a special order to sell 1,000 units at $44 be accepted? yes no

The amberssen specialty company is a chain of twelve retail stores that sell a variety of imported gift items, gourmet chocolates, cheeses, and wines in the toronto area. amberssen has an is staff of three people who have created a simple but effective information system of networked point-of-sale registers at the stores and a centralized accounting system at the company head- quarters. harry hilman, the head of amberssens is group, has just received the following memo from bill amberssen, sales director (and son of amberssen’s founder). harry—it’s time amberssen specialty launched itself on the internet. many of our competitors are already there, selling to customers without the expense of a retail storefront, and we should be there too. i project that we could double or triple our annual revenues by selling our products on the internet. i’d like to have this ready by - giving, in time for the prime holiday gift-shopping season. bill after pondering this memo for several days, harry scheduled a meeting with bill so that he could clarify bill’s vision of this venture. using the standard con- tent of a system request as your guide, prepare a list of questions that harry needs to have answered about this project.

The textbook defines ethics as “the principles of conduct governing an individual or a group,” and specifically as the standards one uses to decide what their conduct should be. to what extent do you believe that what happened at bp (british petrolium) is as much a breakdown in the company’s ethical systems as it is in its safety systems, and how would you defend your conclusion?