Aplumber working for a company providing plumbing services to commercial and industrial establishments was required to be “on call” for emergency plumbing services 24 hours a day, and was required to drive his company van home each night so he would have all of his tools and equipment at hand for any calls. however, he was not permitted to use the company van for personal errands. on his way home one afternoon, he took a detour toward a supermarket a few blocks away to pick up some items for dinner. while entering the supermarket parking lot, he drove negligently and struck a pedestrian, seriously injuring him. the pedestrian filed suit against the plumber’s company in a jurisdiction that maintains traditional common law rules regarding contribution and indemnity, and the jury awarded him $100,000 in damages, which the company paid. if the company sues the plumber to recoup its loss in the lawsuit, which party will prevail?

The following information is available for juno company for the month ending june 30, 2019. * balance as per the bank statement is $ 11 comma 000. * balance as per books is $ 10 comma 400. * check #506 for $ 1 comma 200 and check #510 for $ 900 were not shown on the june 30, bank statement. * a deposit in transit of $ 3 comma 346 had not been received by the bank when the bank statement was generated. * a bank debit memo indicated an nsf check for $ 70 written by jane smith to juno company on june 13. * a bank credit memo indicated a note collected by the bank of $ 1 comma 900 and interest revenue of $ 51 on june 20. * the bank statement indicated service charges of $ 35. what is the adjusted book balance?

Onsider the following subscription behavior information from genie, a web site that provides tools for constructing a family tree (ancestor search). subscriptions cost $9.99 per month, but you are charged for the entire year at the time of purchase. there is a one-year minimum term when you sign up for the service. once purchased, subscriptions are set to renew automatically unless the subscriber cancels them. when a membership renews, it renews for a one-year term and again you are charged for the entire year. there are no variable costs associated with providing this service to an individual customer, but genie does engage in customer relationship activities that they believe will increase customer retention. these customer relationship activities cost genie about $10 per year per customer. based on a sample of 1000 customers that joined genie five years ago, near the time when the company was founded, they were able to determine how many of those customers remained subscribers in the second year, third year etc. based on this information, genie calculated the average annual retention rate to be 20%. genie uses an annual discount rate of 8%. a. last year, genie spent $10,000 placing advertisements on google. genie management believes that these advertisements were responsible for about 300 new subscribers. would you recommend to genie management that they purchase more google ads? b. suppose a newly-introduced loyalty program increases the number of customers that remained to 30%. does this new data change your answer to 9.a? c. do you have any hesitations or concerns about making recommendations to management based on your above estimate of customer lifetime value?

Thomas kratzer is the purchasing manager for the headquarters of a large insurance company chain with a central inventory operation. thomas's fastest-moving inventory item has a demand of 6,000 units per year. the cost of each unit is $100, and the inventory carrying cost is $10 per unit per year. the average ordering cost is $30 per order. it takes about 5 days for an order to arrive, and the demand for 1 week is 120 units. (this is a corporate operation, and the are 250 working days per year.)a) what is the eoq? b) what is the average inventory if the eoq is used? c) what is the optimal number of orders per year? d) what is the optimal number of days in between any two orders? e) what is the annual cost of ordering and holding inventory? f) what is the total annual inventory cost, including cost of the 6,000 units?