Starla corporation is a specialty component manufacturer with idle capacity. management would like to use its extra capacity to generate additional profits. a potential customer has offered to buy 4,370 units of component jolt. each unit of jolt requires 6 units of material ox8 and 9 units of material pow6. data concerning these two materials follow: material units in stock original cost per unit current market price per unit disposal value per unit ox8 35,600 $ 3.94 $ 4.55 $ 3.69 pow6 39,980 $ 3.54 $ 3.65 $ 2.50 material ox8 is in use in many of the company's products and is routinely replenished. material pow6 is no longer used by the company in any of its normal products and existing stocks would not be replenished once they are used up. what would be the relevant cost of the materials, in total, for purposes of determining a minimum acceptable price for the order for product jolt? (cima adapted)

Who is better at multi-tasking? in business, employees are often asked to perform a complex task when their atten-tion is divided (i.e., multi-tasking). human factors (may 2014) published a study designed to determine whether video game players are better than non–video game play-ers at multi-tasking. each in a sample of 60 college stu-dents was classified as a video game player or a non-player. participants entered a street crossing simulator and were asked to cross a busy street at an unsigned intersec-tion. the simulator was designed to have cars traveling at various high rates of speed in both directions. during the crossing, the students also performed a memory task as a distraction. two variables were measured for each student: (1) a street crossing performance score (measured out of 100 points) and (2) a memory task score (measured out of 20 points). the researchers found no differences in either the street crossing performance or memory task score of video game players and non-gamers. “these results,” say the researchers, “suggest that action video game players [and non-gamers] are equally susceptible to the costs of dividing attention in a complex task”

Southeastern bell stocks a certain switch connector at its central warehouse for supplying field service offices. the yearly demand for these connectors is 15,000 units. southeastern estimates its annual holding cost for this item to be $25 per unit. the cost to place and process an order from the supplier is $75. the company operates 300 days per year, and the lead time to receive an order from the supplier is 2 working days.a) find the economic order quantity.b) find the annual holding costs.c) find the annual ordering costs.d) what is the reorder point?

According to herman, one of the differences of managing a nonprofit versus a for-profit corporation is