Johnson electronics sells electrical and electronic components through catalogs. catalogs are updated and printed twice every year. each printing run incurs a fixed cost of $5,000, which involves catalog design cost and printing setup cost. the variable production cost is $5 per catalog. the half-year demand for catalogs is estimated to be normally distributed with a mean of 8,000 and standard deviation of 3,000. data indicate that, on average, each customer ordering a catalog generates a profit of $35 from sales. how many catalogs should be printed?

Eager, a tipped employee, reported to his employer that he had received $320 in tips during march. on the next payday, april 4, he was paid his regular salary of $250. the amount of oasdi taxes to withhold from eager’s pay is a. $19.84 b. $15.50 c. $35.34 d. $43.61 e. none of the above. 2 points

Who is not spending wisely? erika goes shopping and saves her receipts. she totals how much she spent and writes it down. mia needs to buy a new pair of shoes because she joined the soccer team. she looks at newspaper ads to find the best price. lauren has been thinking about getting a puppy for a long time. she walks by the pet store at the mall and decides to get a puppy. erin makes a purchase online using a credit card. she knows that she can pay the entire bill when it arrives.

Fanning company is considering the addition of a new product to its cosmetics line. the company has three distinctly different options: a skin cream, a bath oil, or a hair coloring gel. relevant information and budgeted annual income statements for each of the products follow. skin cream bath oil color gel budgeted sales in units (a) 110,000 190,000 70,000 expected sales price (b) $8 $4 $11 variable costs per unit (c) $2 $2 $7 income statements sales revenue (a × b) $880,000 $760,000 $770,000 variable costs (a × c) (220,000) (380,000) (490,000) contribution margin 660,000 380,000 280,000 fixed costs (432,000) (240,000) (76,000) net income $228,000 $140,000 $204,000 required: (a) determine the margin of safety as a percentage for each product. (b) prepare revised income statements for each product, assuming a 20 percent increase in the budgeted sales volume. (c) for each product, determine the percentage change in net income that results from the 20 percent increase in sales. (d) assuming that management is pessimistic and risk averse, which product should the company add to its cosmetics line? (e) assuming that management is optimistic and risk aggressive, which product should the company add to its cosmetics line?