Quality Cleaners specializes in cleaning apartment units and office buildings. Although the work is not too enjoyable, Joe Boyett has been able to realize a considerable profit in the Chicago area. Joe is now thinking about opening another Quality Cleaners in Milwaukee. To break even, Joe would need to get 200 cleaning jobs per year. For every job under 200, Joe will lose $80. Joe estimates that the average sales in Milwaukee are 350 jobs per year, with a standard deviation of 150 jobs. A market research team has approached Joe with a proposition to perform a marketing study on the potential for his cleaning business in Milwaukee. What is the most that Joe would be willing to pay for the market research?

Artisan Metalworks has a bottleneck in their production that occurs within the engraving department. Jamal Moore, the COO, is considering hiring an extra worker, whose salary will be $54,000 per year, to solve the problem. With this extra worker, the company could produce and sell 2,900 more units per year. Currently, the selling price per unit is $25.00 and the cost per unit is $7.50. $3.40 1.00 0.40 2.70 $7.50 Direct materials Direct labor Variable overhead Fixed overhead (primarily depreciation of equipment) Total Using the Information provided, calculate the annual financial Impact of hiring the extra worker. Profit $ Increase ✔

Gallatin Carpet Cleaning is a small, family-owned business operating out of Bozeman, Montana. For its services, the company has always charged a flat fee per hundred square feet of carpet cleaned. The current fee is $23.55 per hundred square feet. However, there is some question about whether the company is actually making any money on jobs for some customers—particularly those located on remote ranches that require considerable travel time. The owner’s daughter, home for the summer from college, has suggested investigating this question using activity-based costing. After some discussion, she designed a simple system consisting of four activity cost pools. The activity cost pools and their activity measures appear below:   Activity Cost Pool Activity Measure Activity for the Year Cleaning carpets Square feet cleaned (00s) 12,500 hundred square feet Travel to jobs Miles driven 241,500 miles Job support Number of jobs 2,000 jobs Other (organization-sustaining costs and idle…

Instacart Inc. needs 30,000 square feet of usable office space. There’s an office building in prime location in Inland Empire that has exactly the square footage it needs located on its top floor. The top floor has 100,000 square feet of rentable space, of which 50,000 square feet is currently used by other tenants. The rent that the landlord is charging is $8 per square foot per year.(a) If Instacart is UNAWARE of any areas that are shared (a.k.a. common) by the tenants on the top floor (such as hallways, restrooms, lounge areas), it would expect to pay rent on ____ square feet of space which would result in ____ in total annual rent due. (b) Now, assume that Istacart IS AWARE of common areas on the top floor. It is also aware that in this case the landlord would be charging all the tenants on the floor their prorated share of rent for those areas. In this case, Instacart would expect to pay rent on ____ square feet of space which would result in ____ in total annual rent due.

A tiny firm in Bulacan makes portable threshers for the area's palay growers. The shop can create each thresher for P1,800 in labour. Each unit has a material cost of P2,500. The variable expenses per unit are P650, whereas the annual fixed costs are P69,000. How many portable threshers must be built and sold per year to break even if each unit costs P7,800? Computes and a graphical solution can both be used to back up your response. (Please offer a COMPLETE and UNDERSTANDABLE answer.) Also, be sure to write legibly.)

Fred is considering three job offers in advertising. A full-time position as a coordinator that pays a salary of $40,000 per year. A full-time position as a designer that pays an hourly wage of $28.  The job assumes five 8-hour days per week. A sales representative that pays a 5% commission.  Sales reps typically sell an average of $100,000 per month in advertising. The following are the specifics about the benefits of the job opportunities: The U.S. government will deduct Social Security (6.2%) and Medicare (1.45%). Fred will deduct 15% of Gross Income to cover Federal Income Tax. Fred does not live in a state with State Income Tax. Fred is planning on taking two weeks of vacation and has typically been sick 3 days per year. The Coordinator job includes two weeks of paid vacation and five paid sick days per year, paid health insurance, life insurance costing $35 per month, and a fully paid retirement plan. The Designer job includes five paid vacation days and three paid sick days…

Gallatin Carpet Cleaning is a small, family-owned business operating out of Bozeman, Montana. For its services, the company has always charged a flat fee per hundred square feet of carpet cleaned. The current fee is $22.30 per hundred square feet. However, there is some question about whether the company is actually making any money on jobs for some customers—particularly those located on remote ranches that require considerable travel time. The owner’s daughter, home for the summer from college, has suggested investigating this question using activity-based costing. After some discussion, she designed a simple system consisting of four activity cost pools. The activity cost pools and their activity measures appear below: Activity Cost Pool Activity Measure Activity for the Year Cleaning carpets Square feet cleaned (00s) 9,500 hundred square feet Travel to jobs Miles driven 292,000 miles Job support Number of jobs 2,000 jobs Other (organization-sustaining costs and idle…

Gallatin Carpet Cleaning is a small, family-owned business operating out of Bozeman, Montana. For its services, the company has always charged a flat fee per hundred square feet of carpet cleaned. The current fee is $23.15 per hundred square feet. However, there is some question about whether the company is actually making any money on jobs for some customers—particularly those located on remote ranches that require considerable travel time. The owner’s daughter, home for the summer from college, has suggested investigating this question using activity-based costing. After some discussion, she designed a simple system consisting of four activity cost pools. The activity cost pools and their activity measures appear below:   Activity Cost Pool Activity Measure Activity for the Year Cleaning carpets Square feet cleaned (00s) 15,000 hundred square feet Travel to jobs Miles driven 184,000 miles Job support Number of jobs 1,800 jobs Other (organization-sustaining costs and idle…

Jarvie loves to bike. In fact, he has always turned down better-paying jobs to work in bicycle shops where he gets an employee discount. At Jarvie's current shop, Bad Dog Cycles, each employee is allowed to purchase four bicycles a year at a discount. Bad Dog has an average gross profit percentage on bicycles of 25 percent. During the current year, Jarvie bought the following bikes: Description Retail Price Cost Employee Price Specialized road bike $ 7,200 $ 4,900 $ 5,040 Rocky Mountain mountain bike 5,200 3,750 4,160 Trek road bike 3,300 2,760 2,310 Yeti mountain bike 3,300 2,900 2,640 Required: What amount is Jarvie required to include in taxable income from these purchases? What amount of deductions is Bad Dog allowed to claim from these transactions?

Conny has found a new material to work with. It's a 17.9% price reduction of his original raw materials that cost $258.07. However, the new material is more delicate and he can not work as fast. This means He must work an extra 5 hours for one piece. Conny charges $20 per hour. How much will Conny be saving if he uses this new material?