Mueller Corp. manufactures flash drives that sell for $5.00.  Fixed costs are $28,000 and  variable costs are $3.60 per unit.  Mueller can buy a newer production machine that will  increase fixed costs by $8,000 per year, and will decrease variable costs by $0.40 per unit.    What effect would the purchase of the new machine have on Mueller's break-even point in  units?

LEGO is producing a new brick set and plan on selling it for $120. The fixed costs are $500,000 and variable costs are $80. This results in a break even point of 12500 sets. The mean number of sets sold is anticipated to be 15000 and the standard deviation of the distribution is 5000. They also believe the loss per unit when sales are below the break even is $50. Determine the following given the above scenario. Expected Monetary Value: $ 300000 D value for unit normal loss table: 0.810 N value from unit normal loss table: 0.118 Expected Opportunity Loss: $ 54638.05

A bicycle manufacturer currently produces 360,000 units a year and expects output levels to remain steady in the future. It buys chains from an outside supplier at a price of $2.10 a chain. The plant manager believes that it would be cheaper to make these chains rather than buy them. Direct in-house production costs are estimated to be only $1.50 per chain. The necessary machinery would cost $268,000 and would be obsolete after ten years. This investment could be depreciated to zero for tax purposes using a ten-year straight-line depreciation schedule. The plant manager estimates that the operation would require $56,000 of inventory and other working capital upfront (year 0), but argues that this sum can be ignored since it is recoverable at the end of the ten years. Expected proceeds from scrapping the machinery after ten years are $20,100.If the company pays tax at a rate of 20% and the opportunity cost of capital is 15%, what is the net present value of the decision to produce the…

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