1. Last year, your company purchased a site license to the accounting software suite CookTheBooks® for $1,150. Yesterday, your IT department discovered that the software erroneously calculates 2 + 2 = 5 and suggested purchasing a replacement software, BeanCounter®, for $950. How should your company assess or quantify the cost of the decision to replace its software? The BeanCounter® software includes a monthly fee of $37 per site license (i.e., the fee to the company is $37 per month regardless of the number of computers on which the software is installed or how often it is used); how would the company characterize this cost (in terms of the concepts we've discussed this week which is short and long run production and cost)?

Consider an airline's decision about whether to cancel a particular flight that hasn't sold out. The following table provides data on the total cost of operating a 100-seat plane for various numbers of passengers. Total Cost Number of Passengers (Dollars per flight) 40,000 10 60,000 20 65,000 30 68,000 40 70,000 50 71,000 60 72,500 70 73,500 80 74,000 90 74,300 100 74,500 Given the information presented in the previous table, the fixed cost to operate this flight is s At each ticket price, a different number of consumers will be willing to purchase tickets for this flight. Assume that the price of a flight is fixed for the duration of ticket sales. Use the previous table as well as the following demand schedule to complete the questions that follow. Price Quantity Demanded (Dollars per ticket) (Tickets per flight) 1,000 700 30 400 90 200 100

Tomas Ocampo has just been appointed chairperson of the Accountancy Department of ADEB College. In reviewing the department’s cost records, Tomas has found the following total cost associated with MAS Part 2 subject over the last several terms: Semester/Term Number of Subjects Offered Total Cost AY2004, First Semester 4 P10,000 AY2004, Second Semester 6 14,000 AY2004, Summer 2 7,000 AY2005, First Semester 5 13,000 AY2005, Second Semester 3 9,500 Tomas knows that there are some variable costs, such as amounts paid to student assistants, associated with the course. He would like to have variable and fixed cost components separated for planning purposes. Using the least-squares method, what is the variable cost per section of MAS?

If he wants the average cost of production to be $1, how many lures would he e) have to produce in one month? e)_ If he wants to make a profit of at least $4000 per month, what is the f) minimum number of lures he would have to produce if he sells every lure he produces for $4? f)_

"A taxi company currently has nine cabs in its fleet, and its total daily cost is $4,000. If the company added a 10th cab, its daily total cost would be $4,200, or $420 per cab. Adding the 10th cab will increase the daily total revenue by $300. Should the company add the 10th cab?  (Yes/No)"

A soap company sold 250,000 soaps for which the variable cost of manufacture was $4.20 per soap. Each soap contributes 30% of its revenue to fixed costs and profit. This year the company decided to give a price reduction of 5%. How many more soaps will the company have to sell at the 5% price reduction to earn the same profit.

8 The cost of lumber per million board feet (MBF) in January 2007 was $464.49 when the value of the ENR materials cost index (MCI) was 2583.52. If the cost of lumber increased in proportion to the MCI, what was the value of the index when the cost of lumber was $400 per MBF?