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Given the decision tree below, determine which alternative should be purchase given the probability of poor and good economic conditions. Explain your answer.

Clean Air Ltd (Clean Air) had been a successful air conditioner manufacturer for manyyears. During the past two years, Clean Air has conducted research into newenvironmentally friendly ways to cool air without using electricity.In 2018, Clean Air made a decision to raise capital to enable it to conduct moreresearch. It also planned to expand its business by manufacturing portable solarpowered air conditioners. The board estimated it would need $100,000.After much consideration the Board decided to borrow the $100,000.00 from Vast Bank.Vast Bank would provide the loan only if Clean Air granted the bank a security interestover Clean Air’s assets.For some months Clean Air’s business expanded as planned but then a competitor, PureAir Pty Ltd, developed a more effective solar powered air conditioner and Clean Air’s salesbegan to decline rapidly.Clean Air is now finding it hard to pay its contractors and suppliers on time and is failing tomake regular loan repayments to Vast Bank. It is also…

A custom t-shirt company decides to contract with an foreign supplier to source standard plain t-shirts. They find that the shipments were of inferior quality. This new information would lead you to recommend:   Group of answer choices For vertical integration, in order to reduce monitoring costs c. For vertical integration, in order to circumvent hold-up problems a. Against vertical integration, because markets are efficient

You are in charge of analyzing five new suppliers of an important raw material and have been given the information shown below (1 = worst, 10 = best). Management has decided that criteria 2 and 3 are equally important and that criteria 1 and 4 are each four times as important as criterion 2. No more than two new suppliers are required but each new vendor must exceed a total score of 70 percent of the maximum total points to be considered.   Rating PerformanceCriterion VendorA VendorB VendorC VendorD VendorE Quality of rawmaterial 8 7 3 6 9 Environmental impact 3 8 4 7 7 Responsiveness toorder changes 9 5 7 6 5 Cost of raw material 7 6 9 2 7 a. Which new vendors do you recommend?b. Would your decision change if the criteria were considered equally important?

Current Asset Usage Policy Payne Products had $2.4 million in sales revenues in the most recent year and expects sales growth to be 25% this year. Payne would like to determine the effect of various current assets policies on its financial performance. Payne has $3 million of fixed assets and intends to keep its debt ratio at its historical level of 50%. Payne's debt interest rate is currently 9%. You are to evaluate three different current asset policies: (1) a restricted policy in which current assets are 45% of projected sales, (2) a moderate policy with 50% of sales tied up in current assets, and (3) a relaxed policy requiring current assets of 60% of sales. Earnings before interest and taxes are expected to be 11% of sales. Payne's tax rate is 35%. What is the expected return on equity under each current asset level? Round your answers to two decimal places. Tight policy % Moderate policy % Relaxed policy %

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Focus on the difference between feasible alternatives (Principle 2)! Insulated concrete forms (ICF) can be used as a substitute for conventional wood framing in building construction. Heating and cooling bills will be about 50% less than in a similar wood-framed building in upstate New York. An ICF home will be approximately 10% more expensive to construct than a wood-framed home. For a typical 2,000 ft2 home costing $120 per ft2 to construct in upstate New York and costing $200 per month to heat and cool, how many months does it take for a 2,000 ft2 ICF home to pay back its extra construction cost?

A small parts manufacturer has just engineered a new product for the automotive industry. In order to produce the part the company can expand existing facilities, acquire a competitor, or subcontract production. The company believes the product will either experience high market demand, an average market demand or low market demand. The following table summarizes the company's decision situation (profits in thousands of dollars). Alternative 00 540 300 240 O 100 30% High Dem. 1,000 Expand Facilities Acquire Competitor Subcontract Production What is the Expected Value of Perfect Information for the small parts manufacturer? 800 Ave. Dem. 200 600 -300 30% 100 Low Dem. -1,000 -400 0

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Demonstrate the steps to solve this question: Advanced Electronics manufactures DVDs and sells them directly to retailers who typically sell them for $20. Retailers take a 40 percent margin based on the retail selling price. Advanced’s cost information is as follows:DVD package and disc            €2.50/DVDRoyalties                                  €2.25/DVDAdvertising and promotion     €500,000Overhead                                 €200,000 Calculate the break-even volume in DVD units and euros.

Air Asia is a low-cost airline operating primarily in Asia. It was the first airline in Asia to operate under the low fare no-frills model first introduced in Europe. Air Asia enjoyed for quite a while some success in a very competitive industry where many firms have failed. This case considers Air Asia’s development, its business model, and the reactions of some of its competitors. The objective is to use Porter’s Five Forces Model and seek to evaluate if Air Asia’s success is sustainable in the market it has defined for itself. What competitive advantages does Air Asia enjoy at the time of this case? Do you think these advantages are sustainable?

Management Decision Model T 1 2 3 Demand A 270 14 6 B 1. Northwest Corner Rule 2. Hungarian Method 280 8 5 12 Compute transportation cost using C 250 3 7 4 Supply 250 280 270 800

There are many sellers of blue jeans. Each blue jean seller makes their product slightly different to set it apart from others. There is free entry and exit into the blue jean market. Which market structure does this describe? O a. Oligopoly O b. Monopolistic Competition O c. Monopoly O d. Perfect Competition From the following, which statement is CORRECT about the production possibility concept? O a. It shows combinations of two products O b. If one product is produced more, the other product will be less O c. All of these O d. It shows the best use of the resources

As purchasing agent for Eynan Enterprises in​ Richmond, Virginia, you ask your buyer to provide you with a ranking of​ "excellent" (worth 4​ points), "good"​ (3 points),​ "fair" (2​ points), or​ "poor" ​ (1 point) for a variety of characteristics for two potential​ vendors, Donna Inc.​ (D) and Kay Corp.​ (K). You suggest that​ "Products" total be weighted 0.4​, the​ "Company" total be weighted 0.2​, and the​ "Service" and​ "Sales" totals each be weighted 0.2. The buyer has returned the following ranking. Which of the two vendors would you​ select?   Click the icon to view the rankings. Part 2 You should choose vendor ▼   Donna Inc. Either Kay Corp. or Donna Inc. Kay Corp. ​, with a weighted score of ________. ​(Enter your response rounded to one decimal​ place.)

Bloom's Jeans is searching for new suppliers, and DebbieBloom, the owner, has narrowed her choices to two sets. Debbie isvery concerned about supply disruptions, so she has chosen to usethree suppliers no matter what. For option l, the suppliers are wellestablished and located in the same country. Debbie calculates the" unique-event" risk for each of them to be 4%. She estimates theprobability of a nationwide event that would knock out all three suppliersto be 2.5%. For option 2, the suppliers are newer but located inthree different countries. Debbie calculates the " unique-event" riskfor each of them to be 20%. She estimates the "super-event" probabilitythat would knock out all three of these suppliers to be 0.4%.Purchasing and transportation costs would be $1 ,000,000 per yearusing option 1 and $1,0 I 0,000 per year using option 2. A total disruptionwould create an annualized loss of$500,000.a) What is the probability that all three suppliers will be disru pled using option 1?b) What…

Macrosoft Corporation is a software giant in personal computers (PCs). Although its flagship operating system ‘Meadow’ is still dominating in the PC market, the burgeoning of tablets and smartphones in recent years has been chewing up the PC market. In fact, the numbers of new Meadow users was shrinking every year. In view of this situation, Macrosoft is considering making an offer to purchase Oats Production, and upstart smartphone producer in China. The management of Macrosoft hopes that the acquisition could allow the company to explore the smartphone software market and bring in new revenue to the firm. The treasurer of Macrosoft has collected the following information:   Macrosoft Corporation Oats Production Shares outstanding 1,500,000 800,000 Earnings $8,400,000 $2,400,000 Divdends $4,200,000 $1,800,000 Price-earnings ratio 18X 15X The treasurer also discovers that the earnings and dividends of Oats will grow at a constant rate of 6% every year. If the acquisition…

Claudia Pragraro Technologies, Inc., has narrowed its choice of outsourcing provider to two firms located in different countries. Pragram wants to decide which one of the two countries is the better choice, based on risk-avoidance criteria. She has polled her executives and established four cntena. The resulting ratings for the two countries are presented in the table belove where i o lower risk and 3 is a higher risk. Assume that the executives have determined four critena weightings: Price, with a weight of 0.1; Neamess, with 0.6: Technology, with 0.2; and History, with 0.1. a) Using the weighted factor-rating method, which country would you select? in the following table, compute the total weighted score for each candidate (enter your responses rounded to one decimal place) Based on a comparison of weighted risk scores, Claudia Pragram should choose b) Double each of the weights used in part (a) (to 0.20, 1.20, 0.40, and 0.20, respectively). If each weight is doubled. Claudia…

Scenario D: Your company wants to get started in sustainability and ethical sourcing in their business. Your boss wants a pitch proposal to the senior leadership team to address this opportunity.

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Pinkie Ice-Cream ltd. Pinky Ice-cream ltd. is an ice-cream company that is located in the city of Palma and has branches in several communities. The brand is an emerging brand and is becoming very popular among children and young adults. One of the reasons why this brand of ice-cream is becoming so popular is because the quality is outstanding. The Operations manager work closely with the marketing manager to ensure that the best quality ice-cream is sold to customer. The OM manager uses the best quality ingredients and ensures that the best machines and labour are employed in the transformation process. With the aid of a well labeled diagram, briefly describe the transformation process at Pinkie Ice-Cream ltd.

1) A television network earns an average of $1.6 million each season from a hit program and loses an averageof $400,000 each season on a program that turns out to be a flop, and of all programs picked up by thisnetwork in recent years, 25% turn out to be hits and 75% turn out to be flops.  a) Construct a decision tree to help the television network identify the strategy that maximizes itsexpected profit in responding to a newly proposed television program. Make sure to label all decision and chance nodes and include appropriate costs, payoffs and probabilities. b) What should the network do? What is their expected profit? c) The network can conduct market research to determine whether a program will be a hit or a flop. Ifthe market research report is perfectly reliable, what is the most the network should be willing to payfor it?   2) A buyer for a large sporting goods store chain must place orders for professional footballs with the footballmanufacturer six months prior to the time…

DLSU 40,000 (COB 5,000; CCS 15%; CLA 20%; COL 5% and others) Average price per computer device Php25,000Average price per Apple device Php30,000 Among them, 40% of students of COB, 50% of CLA, and 80% of COL owns at least one Apple device. Compare the brand penetration of Apple in the above colleges. What is the penetration share of Apple in the above colleges. Given that students replace their Apple devices once every 3 years on average, what is the market size (units/revenues) for computer devices for these colleges until the end of 2025? What is the concentration of sales/revenue of Apple devices among the colleges (BDI)? Compare the CDI and BDI of the colleges. Insights?