Mira offered to sell Peter a parking lot for $75,000. The offer was in writing and signed by Mira and provided that any acceptance by Peter must be within 5 days. On the fourth day, Mira accepted a better offer from Dean and transferred the parking lot to Dean on that day. Unaware of this sale, Peter telephoned Mira on the fifth day and accepted Mira’s offer. In an action by Peter against Mira for breach of contract, judgment for whom?

What is the most important type of decision that the financial manager makes?

The cook corporation has two divisions--east and west. the divisions have the following revenues and expenses: east west sales $ 603,000 $ 506,000 variable costs 231,000 300,000 traceable fixed costs 151,500 192,000 allocated common corporate costs 128,600 156,000 net operating income (loss) $ 91,900 $ (142,000 ) the management of cook is considering the elimination of the west division. if the west division were eliminated, its traceable fixed costs could be avoided. total common corporate costs would be unaffected by this decision. given these data, the elimination of the west division would result in an overall company net operating income (loss)

(a) what was the opportunity cost of non-gm food for many buyers before 2008? (b) why did they prefer the alternative? (c) what was the opportunity cost in 2008? (d) why did it change?