Suppose you are the manager of a conference hall. A local finance association wants to rent the auditorium at your facility for a one-day conference. No other event is scheduled for that day. The conference hall's daily accounting costs and profit margin are shown in the table below. Property insurance premium Property taxes Electricity for the conference Janitorial services for the conference Security for the conference Profit margin Which of the following offers would be acceptable to you as the conference hall's manager? (Check all that apply.) $930 $852 $434 $420 $462 $192 $204 $96 $120 $228 $84

Many of you will some day own your own business. One rapidly growing opportunity is no-frills workout centers. Such centers attract customers who want to take advantage of state-of-the-art fitness equipment but do not need the other amenities of full-service health clubs. One way to own your own fitness business is to buy a franchise. Snap Fitness is a Minnesota-based business that offers franchise opportunities. For a very low monthly fee ($26, without an annual contract), customers can access a Snap Fitness center 24 hours a day. The Snap Fitness website indicates that start-up costs range from $60,000 to $184,000. This initial investment covers the following pre-opening costs: franchise fee, grand opening marketing, leasehold improvements, utility/rent deposits, and training. Suppose that Snap Fitness estimates that each location incurs $4,000 per month in fixed operating expenses plus $1,460 to lease equipment. A recent newspaper article describing no-frills fitness centers…

Owners of a new restaurant have found numerous costs associated with starting their business (see table). They financed the total of these costs with end-of-month payments through a loan from the bank at {E}compounded {F}, amortized over {G} years. 1. What is the size of the monthly payments required to settle this loan? 2. What is the principal balance outstanding on the loan after one year? 3. What is the size of the final payment? 4. Construct a partial amortization schedule for this loan.

The company eHarbour is expanding and needs to hire new employees for new software development in other regions, but the company is having a hard time finding good employees to fill positions. In your role as a paralegal or legal assistant working for eHarbour, discuss what type of visa programs exist to allow foreign workers to fill specialty occupations. Discuss what types of positions at eHarbour could qualify for the visa program. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of sponsoring a visa program for employees. How can bringing in employees born outside the United States add value to the company? What can current employees and the owners of eHarbour do to make foreign employees feel included?

You run a nail salon. Fixed monthly cost is $5,102.00 for rent and utilities, $5,992.00 is spent in salaries and $1,613.00 in insurance. Also every customer requires approximately $3.00 in supplies. You charge $90.00 on average for each service. You are considering moving the salon to an upscale neighborhood where the rent and utilities will increase to $11,786.00, salaries to $6,735.00 and insurance to $2,228.00 per month. Cost of supplies will increase to $7.00 per service. However you can now charge $167.00 per service. What is the PROFIT or Loss at the crossover point? If a loss include the - Round the quantity to 3 digits when using to calculate the profit Submit Answer format: Number: Round to: 2 decimal places.

Scenario: Joe Babbitt, a former executive of T-Mart, just started a term as mayor of Saulk Center. For the past several days, he has been looking for a way to keep his campaign promise to increase services without raising taxes or service charges. While lunching at the country club with the treasurer of T-Mart, the subject of a recent sale and leaseback of one of T-Mart’s stores came up. Following a common practice in retailing, T-Mart had erected a building and sold it to an investor. It then signed a long-term lease on the building. “Bingo! That’s it,” thought Mayor Babbitt. “We can sell several of the city’s buildings—as well as police cars, fire engines, and other vehicles—to investors and lease them back. That will give us the revenues we desperately need. Now I can concentrate on fighting crime.” Question: Do you agree with Mayor Babbitt?

Suppose that a local airport is near a residential neighborhood. To land at this airport, an airliner must pay $119. To soundproof the local homes, so residents do not hear airplanes all hours of the day, residents must pay $33. What is the private cost for a plane to land at this airport? A What is the external cost of a plane landing at the airport? - What is the social cost of a plane landing at the airport? -

I.M. Aruban has a sandwich shop in a downtown business district. Several ofhis customers have said that they would purchase from his shop more oftenif he offered a delivery service. I.M. is considering establishing a deliveryservice to meet the needs of his market. He believes that he will have to purchasea fax machine, install a new phone line for the fax machine, purchasea delivery van, and hire at least one delivery person. I.M. asks your advice indetermining whether he should take on the delivery service venture.a. What steps would you recommend that I.M. use in reaching a profitabledecision?b. Explain to I.M. what each step involves.

What finances do you need to have to achieve getting somewhere with Cosmetology?  For instance to build your own salon?

A country club wants to exam the effects of a new marketing campaign that attempts to get more people within the community to become members. In many communities, when people buy a house in the area, they receive a “Welcome Wagon” gift basket containing coupons to local restaurants. The idea of the marketing campaign is to include a free two month membership to the country club in the gift basket with the hope that once “new” residents try the country club then at least a certain proportion will want to become real members. One member of the Club’s Executive Council believes that at least 81% of the people who receive the coupons for the free membership will use the coupon. In a sample of 192 new residents who received the coupon for the two month free membership, there were 138 people who actually took advantage of the free two month membership. When testing the hypothesis that at least 81% of the people that receive the coupon actually use it, what is the test statistic?