Question: The management of Health Supplement Inc. wants to reduce its labor cost by installing a new machine. Two types of machines are available in the market – machine X and machine Y. Machine X would cost $18,000 where as machine Y would cost $15,000. Both the machines can reduce annual labor cost by $3,000. Required:Which is the best machine to purchase according to payback method?

a. Compute annual rate of return, Pay back period b  NPV using 14% discounts rate , Is the Project acceptable using this discount rate  Compute NPV using 11% discounts rate. Is the Project acceptable using this discount rate

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Grove Audio is considering the introduction of a new model of wireless speakers with the following price and cost characteristics. Sales price $ 433.00 per unit Variable costs 193.00 per unit Fixed costs 645,000 per year Assume that the projected number of units sold for the year is 3,900. Consider requirements (b), (c), and (d) independently of each other. Questions: What will the operating profit be? What is the impact on operating profit if the sales price decreases by 20 percent? Increases by 10 percent? What is the impact on operating profit if variable costs per unit decrease by 10 percent? Increase by 20 percent? Suppose that fixed costs for the year are 20 percent lower than projected, and variable costs per unit are 10 percent higher than projected. What impact will these cost changes have on operating profit for the year? Will profit go up? Down? By how much?

Question: The Savannah Shirt Company is considering adding a new product line, a cloth shopping bag with custom screen printing that will be sold to grocery stores. If the current market price of cloth shopping bags is $1.25 and the company desires a net profit of 40%, what is the target cost? The company estimates the full product cost of the cloth bags will be $0.60. Should the company manufacture the cloth bags? Why or why not?

Winter Sports manufactures snowboards. Its cost of making 1,700 bindings is as follows: (Click the icon to view the costs.) Suppose Livingston will sell bindings to Winter Sports for $14 each. Winter Sports would pay $1 per unit to transport the bindings to its manufacturing plant, where it would add its own logo at a cost of $0.40 per binding. Read the requirements. Requirement 1. Winter Sports' accountants predict that purchasing the bindings from Livingston will enable the company to avoid $2,200 of fixed overhead. Prepare an analysis to show whether Winter Sports should make or buy the bindings. (Only enter the net relevant costs. For the Difference column, use a minus sign or parentheses only when the cost of outsourcing exceeds the cost of making the bindings in-house.) Make Bindings Outsource Bindings Difference (Make-Outsource) - X Binding costs Data table Variable costs: $ 49 Direct materials Direct labor Variable overhead Fixed costs Durahan minn fram manten ? 7 Q A 2 W S 43…

International Paper is trying to find the best paper rolling machine to maximize sales volume. There are three machine options: Machine A, Machine B, and Machine C. Annual revenue is expected to be at one of three possible levels, High, $6 million; Medium, $3 million; or Low, $2 million; but is impacted by machine selection as the probabilities show in the table below: High Revenue Medium Revenue Low Revenue Machine A .1 .3 .6 Machine B .4 .4 .2 Machine C .5 .4 .1 Which machine should International Paper purchase to maximize the expected revenue, and wh sthe expected revenue? Group of answer choices Machine A, $2.7 million Machine B, $4.0 million Machine B, S4.6 million Machine C, $4.4 million none of the answers provided are correct

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Vista Company manufactures electronic equipment. It currently purchases the special switches used in each of its products from an outside supplier. The supplier charges Vista $1.45 per switch. Vista’s CEO is considering purchasing either machine A or machine B so the company can manufacture its own switches. The projected data are as follows:     Machine A Machine B Annual fixed costs $ 108,900 $ 145,000 Variable cost per switch 0.46 0.20   Required: 1. For each machine, what is the minimum number of switches that Vista must make annually for total costs to equal outside purchase cost? 2. What volume level would produce the same total costs regardless of the machine purchased? 3. What is the most profitable alternative for producing 150,000 switches per year and what is the total cost of that alternative?