The Young Company has gathered the following information for a unit of its most popular product: Direct materials $ 12 Direct labor 6 Overhead (40% variable) 10 Cost to manufacture 28 Desired markup (50%) 14 Target selling price $ 42 The above cost information is based on 10,000 units. A distributor has offered to buy 2,000 units at a price of $32 per unit. This special order would not disturb regular sales. Special packaging and other selling expenses would be an additional $0.50 per unit for the special order. If the special order is accepted, Young's operating profits will increase by:

Acompany that makes shopping carts for supermarkets and other stores recently purchased some new equipment that reduces the labor content of the jobs needed to produce the shopping carts. prior to buying the new equipment, the company used 6 workers, who produced an average of 79 carts per hour. workers receive $16 per hour, and machine coast was $49 per hour. with the new equipment, it was possible to transfer one of the workers to another department, and equipment cost increased by $11 per hour while output increased by four carts per hour. a) compute the multifactor productivity (mfp) (labor plus equipment) under the prior to buying the new equipment. the mfp (carts/$) = (round to 4 decimal places). b) compute the productivity changes between the prior to and after buying the new equipment. the productivity growth = % (round to 2 decimal places)

Fortress international, a large conglomerate, procures a few component parts from external suppliers and also manufactures some of the key raw materials in its own subsidiaries. aside from this, the company does not solely depend on outside distributors to reach its customers. in fact, it has its own retail stores to distribute its products. in this scenario, which of the following alternatives to vertical integration is fortress international applying? a. concentric integration b. taper integration c. horizontal integration d. conglomerate integration

The hypothetical country of eurica is experiencing severe competition to its domestic auto industry in the form of foreign imports. many jobs are threatened. eurica places a 25 percent tariff on the price of imported cars. this type of tariff is known as a(n) tariff.