Borges machine shop, inc., has a 1-year contract for the production of 250 comma 000 gear housings for a new off-road vehicle. owner luis borges hopes the contract will be extended and the volume increased next year. borges has developed costs for three alternatives. they are general-purpose equipment (gpe), flexible manufacturing system (fms), and expensive, but efficient, dedicated machine (dm). the cost data follow: general-purpose equipment (gpe) flexible manufacturing system (fms) dedicated machine (dm) annual contracted units 250 comma 000 250 comma 000 250 comma 000 annual fixed cost $ 150 comma 000 $ 250 comma 000 $ 525 comma 000 per unit variable cost $ 16.00 $ 14.00 $ 13.00 the option gpe is best when the contracted volume is below nothing units (enter your response as a whole number).

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Pennewell publishing inc. (pp) is a zero growth company. it currently has zero debt and its earnings before interest and taxes (ebit) are $80,000. pp's current cost of equity is 10%, and its tax rate is 40%. the firm has 10,000 shares of common stock outstanding selling at a price per share of $48.00. refer to the data for pennewell publishing inc. (pp). pp is considering changing its capital structure to one with 30% debt and 70% equity, based on market values. the debt would have an interest rate of 8%. the new funds would be used to repurchase stock. it is estimated that the increase in risk resulting from the added leverage would cause the required rate of return on equity to rise to 12%. if this plan were carried out, what would be pp's new value of operations? a. $484,359 b. $521,173 c. $584,653 d. $560,748 e. $487,805

Frolic corporation has budgeted sales and production over the next quarter as follows. the company has 4100 units of product on hand at july 1. 10% of the next months sales in units should be on hand at the end of each month. october sales are expected to be 72000 units. budgeted sales for september would be: july august september sales in units 41,500 53,500 ? production in units 45,700 53,800 58,150