Carrier Lennox Trane York Sales $ 160,000 $ 750,000 $ 48,000 $ 267,000
Sales discounts 2,000 17,000 600 4,400
Sales returns and allowances 18,000 6,000 4,900 1,300
Cost of goods sold 93,800 466,007 31,450 130,650
Compute net sales, gross profit, and the gross margin ratio for each of the four separate companies. (Round your gross margin ratio to 1 decimal place; i. e.; 0.2367 should be entered as 23.7%.)
Carrier Lennox Trane York
Net sales
Gross profit
Gross margin ratio

In december of 2004, the company you own entered into a 20-year contract with a grain supplier for daily deliveries of grain to its hot dog bun manufacturing facility. the contract called for "10,000 pounds of grain" to be delivered to the facility at the price of $100,000 per day. until february 2017, the supplier provided processed grain which could easily be used in your manufacturing process. however, no longer wanting to absorb the cost of having the grain processed, the supplier began delivering whole grain. the supplier is arguing that the contract does not specify the type of grain that would be supplied and that it has not breached the contract. your company is arguing that the supplier has an onsite processing plant and processed grain was implicit to the terms of the contract. over the remaining term of the contract, reshipping and having the grain processed would cost your company approximately $10,000,000, opposed to a cost of around $1,000,000 to the supplier. after speaking with in-house counsel, it was estimated that litigation would cost the company several million dollars and last for years. weighing the costs of litigation, along with possible ambiguity in the contract, what are three options you could take to resolve the dispute? which would be the best option for your business and why?

Any point on a country's production possibilities frontier represents a combination of two goods that an economy:

Suppose farmer lane grows and sells cotton in a perfectly competitive industry. the market price of cotton is $1.64 per kilogram, and his marginal cost of production is $1.44 per kilogram, which increases with output. assume farmer lane is currently earning a profit. can farmer lane do anything to increase his profit in the short run? farmer lane: a. cannot do anything to increase his profit. b. may or may not be able to increase his profit. c. can increase his profit by raising his price. d. can increase his profit by producing more output. e. can increase his profit by shutting down.