Assembly and Testing Average labor time per unit (hours) 300 150 Cumulative production 8 12 in units

The production department is proposing the purchase of an automatic insertion machine. It has identified three machines and has asked the accountant to analyze them to determine which one has the best average rate of return. Line Item Description Machine A Machine B Machine C Estimated average income $47,060.44    $72,961.50    $73,785.60    Average investment 336,146.00    243,205.00    491,904.00    a. Machine C b. Machine A c. Machines B and C have the same preferred average rate of return. d. Machine B

Boardman Gases and Chemicals is a supplier of highly purified gases to semiconductor manufacturers. A large chip producer has asked Boardman to build a new gas production facility close to an existing semiconductor plant. Once the new gas plant is in​ place, Boardman will be the exclusive supplier for that semiconductor fabrication plant for the subsequent 10 years. Boardman is considering one of two plant designs. The first is ​ Boardman's "standard" plant which will cost ​$38.8 million to build. The second is for a​ "custom" plant which will cost ​$53.4 million to build. The custom plant will allow Boardman to produce the highly specialized gases required for an emergency semiconductor manufacturing process. Boardman estimates that its client will order ​$12.8 million of product per year if the standard plant is​ constructed, but if the custom design is put in​ place, Boardman expects to sell ​$17.1 million worth of product annually to its client. Boardman has enough money to build…

Your firm has acquired a bag of 29 pills of the cognitive-enhancing, nootropic drug called NZT-48. This has opened up four new potential projects for your firm that would not be possible with only your regular unenhanced employees’ feeble meatbag brains. Each project is non-repeatable and of equal time. You have calculated the NPV of each project as well as the requested number of NZT-48 pills by each project’s exploratory team: Project Codename NPV Pills Requested Commodus $42,800 14 Caligula  $70,500 20 Nero  $24,150 5 Elagabalus   $72,200 19   Assume that you can do partial projects whereby you can allocate less pills than the number requested by the team. This would give you a pro-rata portion of that project’s NPV (i.e. the amount of pills you allocate as a proportion of the number requested).  The maximum total NPV your firm can achieve through allocating its 29 NZT-48 pills across these four projects is $$.(Round up to the nearest dollar)