Develop a house of quality for producing a computer mouse knowing the following:

1) Customer Requirements are:
Easy to move (Importance to the customer 3)
Does not freeze (Importance to the customer 5)
Easy to click (Importance to the customer 4)
Contoured to hand (Importance to the customer 4)
Easy to clean (Importance to the customer 2)

2) Engineering and Design Characteristics:
Lightweight
Well finished surface
Button resistance
Ergonomically designed
Product dimension
Sensitive laser

3) There two competitors in the market Company A and Company B rated as follows (1 being the worst and 5 the best):
Easy to move ([email protected], [email protected], Your Company @4)
Does not freeze ([email protected], [email protected], Your Company @1)
Easy to click ([email protected], [email protected], Your Company @2)
Contoured to hand ([email protected], [email protected], Your Company @5)
Easy to clean ([email protected], [email protected], Your Company @3)

Instructions: use the following information to construct the 2000 balance sheet and income statement for carolina business machines. round all numbers to the nearest whole dollar. all numbers are in thousands of dollars. be sure to read the whole problem before you jump in and get started. at the end of 1999 the firm had $43,000 in gross fixed assets. in 2000 they purchased an additional $14,000 of fixed asset equipment. accumulated depreciation at the end of 1999 was $21,000. the depreciation expense in 2000 is $4,620. at the end of 2000 the firm had $3,000 in cash and $3,000 in accounts payable. in 2000 the firm extended a total of $9,000 in credit to a number of their customers in the form of accounts receivable. the firm generated $60,000 in sales revenue in 2000. their cost of goods sold was 60 percent of sales. they also incurred salaries and wages expense of $10,000. to date the firm has $1,000 in accrued salaries and wages. they borrowed $10,000 from their local bank to finance the $15,000 in inventory they now have on hand. the firm also has $7,120 invested in marketable securities. the firm currently has $20,000 in long-term debt outstanding and paid $2,000 in interest on their outstanding debt. over the firm's life, shareholders have put up $30,000. eighty percent of the shareholder's funds are in the form of retained earnings. the par value per share of carolina business machines stock is

Interest is credited to a fixed annuity no lower than the variable contract rate contract guaranteed rate current rate of inflation prime rate

Randall's, inc. has 20,000 shares of stock outstanding with a par value of $1.00 per share. the market value is $12 per share. the balance sheet shows $42,000 in the capital in excess of par account, $20,000 in the common stock account, and $50,500 in the retained earnings account. the firm just announced a 5 percent (small) stock dividend. what will the balance in the retained earnings account be after the dividend?