Your family runs a specialty ice cream parlor, scoops. it manufactures its own ice cream in small batches and sells it only in pint-sized containers. after someone not affiliated with the company sent six pints of your ice cream to a popular talk show host, she proclaimed on her national tv show that it was the best ice cream she had ever eaten. immediately after the broadcast, orders came flooding in, overwhelming your small-batch production schedule and your limited distribution system. the company's shipping manager thinks she can handle it, but you disagree.
a) list the reasons why you need to restructure your channel of distribution?
b) building on question a, determine a new channel structure for scoops. write a proposal to present to your key managers.
c) now that you have a basic channel structure for scoops, list the market, product, and producer factors that will affect your final channel structure.

Shrieves casting company is considering adding a new line to its product mix, and the capital budgeting analysis is being conducted by sidney johnson, a recently graduated mba. the production line would be set up in unused space in the main plant. the machinery’s invoice price would be approximately $200,000, another $10,000 in shipping charges would be required, and it would cost an additional $30,000 to install the equipment. the machinery has an economic life of 4 years, and shrieves has obtained a special tax ruling that places the equipment in the macrs 3-year class. the machinery is expected to have a salvage value of $25,000 after 4 years of use. the new line would generate incremental sales of 1,250 units per year for 4 years at an incremental cost of $100 per unit in the first year, excluding depreciation. each unit can be sold for $200 in the first year. the sales price and cost are both expected to increase by 3% per year due to inflation. further, to handle the new line, the firm’s net working capital would have to increase by an amount equal to 12% of sales revenues. the firm’s tax rate is 40%, and its overall weighted average cost of capital, which is the risk-adjusted cost of capital for an average project (r), is 10%. define “incremental cash flow.” (1) should you subtract interest expense or dividends when calculating project cash flow?

Factors like the unemployment rate, the stock market, global trade, economic policy, and the economic situation of other countries have no influence on the financial status of individuals. ( t or f)

Slow ride corp. is evaluating a project with the following cash flows: year cash flow 0 –$12,000 1 5,800 2 6,500 3 6,200 4 5,100 5 –4,300 the company uses a 11 percent discount rate and an 8 percent reinvestment rate on all of its projects. calculate the mirr of the project using all three methods using these interest rates.