Microeconomics Spring 2010 1. Your cousin Vinnie owns a painting company with fixed costs of $200 and the schedule for variable costs as below. What is the efficient scale of the painting company? Quantity of Houses Painted per Month | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Variable Costs | $10 | $20 | $40 | $80 | $160 | $320 | $640 | 2. Your aunt is thinking about opening a hardware store. She estimates that it would cost $500‚000 per year to rent the location and buy the stock. In addition‚ she would
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Inventoriable costs are expensed when incurred. Answer Selected Answer: False Correct Answer: False Question 2 1 out of 1 points Correct Finished goods inventory is ordinarily held for sale by a manufacturing company. Answer Selected Answer: True Correct Answer: True Question 3 1 out of 1 points Correct Indirect labor is not a component of manufacturing overhead. Answer Selected Answer: False Correct Answer: False Question 4 1 out of 1 points Correct The following equation
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Analyze Overtime Cost and Hours. The task I was assigned consisted of compiling GPA’s overtime cost and hours by the divisions overseen by each Assistant General Manager (GM). The four divisions are the following: AGMO for operations‚ AGMA for administration‚ AGMET for engineering and technology‚ and the Chief Financial Officer division for the budget‚ accounting‚ and revenue assurance sections. After classifying the overtime cost and hours into their assigned divisions‚ I had to evaluate how much
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strategic decisions of firms is to define their boundaries and under what circumstances should they consider using market instead of internal organisation to coordinate exchange. This essay is to try to describe the key characteristics of Transactions Costs Economics (hereafter TEC) and with real life examples given as how it affects the decision of using market vs. organisation. Also‚ by quoting the example of Sony (battery)‚ Apple (iPod) and firm that I am working with‚ we can see how firms define
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pricing‚ prestige pricing‚ and above-market pricing? 4 Touché Toiletries Inc. has developed an addition to its Lizardman Cologne line tentatively branded Ode d’Toade Cologne. Unit variable costs are 45 cents for a 3-ounce bottle‚ and heavy advertising expenditures in the first year would result in total fixed costs of $900‚000. Ode d’Toade Cologne is priced at $7.50 for a 3-ounce bottle. How many bottles of Ode d’Toade must be sold to break even? 5 What would be your response to the statement‚ “Profit
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each section are provided in the Course Description. Part A – Microeconomics – Worth 10% of total assessment: Answer any five (5) of the following questions. Each question is worth 10 marks; Question 1: (a) Explain the impact of external costs and external benefits on resource allocation; (2.5 marks) Ans : Resources are over - allocated when negative externalities exist because the equilibrium price is too low. Resources are under - allocated when positive externalities exist because the
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On March 25‚ 1911 the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory went up in flames. The owners cowardly ran out of the building‚ telling no one there was a fire. The women who worked there became trapped‚ because the back entrance was locked‚ so many were forced to jump out windows or go down the faulty fire escape. That day will never be forgotten and made people realize how bad the conditions were as workers. As a result of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire‚ many social reforms were built to protect children‚ women
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Full Costs and their Uses Cost is a measurement‚ in monetary terms the amount of resources used for some purpose may be defined as a sacrifice or giving up of resources for a particular purpose. are frequently measured by the monetary units that must be paid for goods and services. Three Important Ideas for Costs 1.Cost measures the use of resources. *The cost elements of producing a tangible good or intangible services are physical quantities of materials‚ hours of labor service and quantities
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Whole = Percent Expense Revenue = Expense % Profit Revenue = Profit % Desired Profit Revenue = Desired Profit % Revenue – (Food and Beverage Cost + Labor Cost + Other Expense) = Profit Food and Beverage Cost Revenue = Food and Beverage Cost % Labor Cost Revenue = Labor Cost % Other Expense Revenue = Other Expense % Total Expense Revenue = Total Expense % Profit Revenue = Profit % Actual
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to go wrong in the analysis of direct material and other direct costs and what could be done about it. The analysis of direct material and other direct costs and what could be done about it is that when a particular organization prepares for the budget in relation to the cost of direct material or direct labor then‚ it has to consider the inflation rate and the standard rates in the industry. In relation to the direct labor cost‚ the organization has to analyze of the industrial standard of the
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