Bebop, inc. is planning a project that requires purchasing some new, highly-efficient cd-burning equipment for $150,000. the freight will be $12,000, and bebop will spend an additional $4,000 to have the equipment installed. at the end of the equipment’s 10-year life, it will be scrapped at an after-tax cost of $2,000. (in other words, the company must spend $2,000 to haul the equipment to the junkyard.) bebop expects that they will create new cds at a much faster rate than they currently do, so their inventory of blank cds will rise by $28,000. they also expect their accounts payable to rise by $22,000.
a) what is bebop’s total initial investment for this project? when will it occur?
b) what is the annual depreciation expense?
c) what is the terminal cash flow for this project? when will it occur?

Aprice ceiling is “binding” if the price ceiling is set below the equilibrium price. suppose that the equilibrium price is $5. if a price ceiling is set at $6, this will not affect the market in any way since $5 remains a legally allowable price (since $5 < $6). a price ceiling of $6 is called a “non-binding” price ceiling. on the other hand, if the price ceiling is set at $4, the price ceiling is “binding” because the natural equilibrium price is $5 but that is no longer allowed. what happens when there is a binding price ceiling? at a price below the equilibrium price, quantity demanded exceeds quantity supplied. there is a shortage. normally, price increases eliminate shortages by increasing quantity supplied and decreasing quantity demanded. in this case, however, price increases are not allowed past the price ceiling. we therefore predict that the observed market price will be right at the price ceiling and there will be a permanent shortage. the observed quantity bought and sold will be dictated by the quantity supplied at the price ceiling. although consumers would like to buy more, there are no more units for sale

Manipulation manufacturing's (amm) standards anticipate that there will be 5 pounds of raw material used for every unit of finished goods produced. amm began the month of maymay with 8,000 pounds of raw material, purchased 25,500 pounds for $ 15,300 and ended the month with 7,400 pounds on hand. the company produced 4,9004,900 units of finished goods. the company estimates standard costs at $ 1.10 per pound. the materials price and efficiency variances for the month of maymay were:

What do you recommend adam do to increase production in a business setting that does not seem to value high productivity?