Scranton company expects to begin operating on july 1, year 1. the company's master budget contained the following operating expense budget: july august september salary expense $ 36,000 $ 36,000 $ 36,000 sales commissions, 5% of sales 30,000 32,000 24,000 utilities 2,800 2,800 2,800 depreciation on store equipment 1,000 1,000 1,000 rent 7,200 7,200 7,200 miscellaneous 1,800 1,800 1,800 total operating expenses $ 78,800 $ 80,800 $ 72,800 sales commissions are paid in cash in the month following the month in which the expense is recognized. all other expense items requiring cash payment are paid in the month in which they are recognized. the amount of commissions payable that would appear on the company's pro forma balance sheet as of september 30, year 1 is:

At a student café, there are equal numbers of two types of customers with the following values. the café owner cannot distinguish between the two types of students because many students without early classes arrive early anyway (i.e., she cannot price-discriminate). students with early classes students without early classes coffee 70 60 banana 51 101 the marginal cost of coffee is 10 and the marginal cost of a banana is 40. the café owner is considering three pricing strategies: 1. mixed bundling: price bundle of coffee and a banana for 161, or just a coffee for 70. 2. price separately: offer coffee at 60, price a banana at 101. 3. bundle only: coffee and a banana for 121. do not offer goods separately. assume that if the price of an item or bundle is no more than exactly equal to a student's willingness to pay, then the student will purchase the item or bundle. for simplicity, assume there is just one student with an early class, and one student without an early class. price strategy revenue from pricing strategy cost from pricing strategy profit from pricing strategy 1. mixed bundling $ $ $ 2. price separately $ $ $ 3. bundle only $ $ $ pricing strategy yields the highest profit for the café owner.

You were able to purchase two tickets to an upcoming concert for $100 apiece when the concert was first announced three months ago. recently, you saw that stubhub was listing similar seats for $225 apiece. what does it cost you to attend the concert?

Down under products, ltd., of australia has budgeted sales of its popular boomerang for the next four months as follows: unit salesapril 74,000may 85,000june 114,000july 92,000the company is now in the process of preparing a production budget for the second quarter. past experience has shown that end-of-month inventory levels must equal 10% of the following month’s unit sales. the inventory at the end of march was 7,400 units.required: prepare a production budget by month and in total, for the second quarter.