Ritz products's materials manager, tej dhakar, must determine whether to make or buy a new semiconductor for the wrist tv that the firm is about to produce. four million units are expected to be produced over the life cycle. if the product is made, start-up and production costs of the make decision total $3 million, with a probability of 0.5 that the product will be satisfactory and a 0.5 probability that it will not. if the product is not satisfactory, the firm will have to reevaluate the decision. if the decision is reevaluated, the choice will be whether to spend another $3 million to redesign the semiconductor or to purchase. likelihood of success the second time that the make decision is made is 0.7. if the second make decision also fails, the firm must purchase. regardless of when the purchase takes place, dhakar's best judgment of cost is that ritz will pay $0.50 for each purchased semiconductor plus $2 million in vendor development cost.
a) assuming that ritz must have the semiconductor (stopping or doing without is not a viable option), what is the best decision?

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The production manager of rordan corporation has submitted the following quarterly production forecast for the upcoming fiscal year: 1st quarter 2nd quarter 3rd quarter 4th quarter units to be produced 10,800 8,500 7,100 11,200 each unit requires 0.25 direct labor-hours, and direct laborers are paid $20.00 per hour. required: 1. prepare the company’s direct labor budget for the upcoming fiscal year. assume that the direct labor workforce is adjusted each quarter to match the number of hours required to produce the forecasted number of units produced. 2. prepare the company’s direct labor budget for the upcoming fiscal year, assuming that the direct labor workforce is not adjusted each quarter. instead, assume that the company’s direct labor workforce consists of permanent employees who are guaranteed to be paid for at least 2,500 hours of work each quarter. if the number of required direct labor-hours is less than this number, the workers are paid for 2,500 hours anyway. any hours worked in excess of 2,500 hours in a quarter are paid at the rate of 1.5 times the normal hourly rate for direct labor.

Tri fecta, a partnership, had revenues of $369,000 in its first year of operations. the partnership has not collected on $45,000 of its sales and still owes $39,500 on $155,000 of merchandise it purchased. there was no inventory on hand at the end of the year. the partnership paid $27,000 in salaries. the partners invested $48,000 in the business and $23,000 was borrowed on a five-year note. the partnership paid $2,070 in interest that was the amount owed for the year and paid $9,500 for a two-year insurance policy on the first day of business. compute net income for the first year for tri fecta.