Westerville Company reported the following results from last year’s operations: Sales $ 1,500,000 Variable expenses 730,000 Contribution margin 770,000 Fixed expenses 470,000 Net operating income $ 300,000 Average operating assets $ 937,500 This year, the company has a $362,500 investment opportunity with the following cost and revenue characteristics: Sales $ 580,000 Contribution margin ratio 70 % of sales Fixed expenses $ 319,000 3. What is last year’s return on investment (ROI)?

4. What is the margin related to this year’s investment opportunity?

5. What is the turnover related to this year’s investment opportunity? (Round your answer to 1 decimal place.)

6. What is the ROI related to this year’s investment opportunity?

7. If the company pursues the investment opportunity and otherwise performs the same as last year, what margin will it earn this year? (Round your percentage answer to 1 decimal place (i. e .1234 should be entered as 12.3))

At a student café, there are equal numbers of two types of customers with the following values. the café owner cannot distinguish between the two types of students because many students without early classes arrive early anyway (i.e., she cannot price-discriminate). students with early classes students without early classes coffee 70 60 banana 51 101 the marginal cost of coffee is 10 and the marginal cost of a banana is 40. the café owner is considering three pricing strategies: 1. mixed bundling: price bundle of coffee and a banana for 161, or just a coffee for 70. 2. price separately: offer coffee at 60, price a banana at 101. 3. bundle only: coffee and a banana for 121. do not offer goods separately. assume that if the price of an item or bundle is no more than exactly equal to a student's willingness to pay, then the student will purchase the item or bundle. for simplicity, assume there is just one student with an early class, and one student without an early class. price strategy revenue from pricing strategy cost from pricing strategy profit from pricing strategy 1. mixed bundling $ $ $ 2. price separately $ $ $ 3. bundle only $ $ $ pricing strategy yields the highest profit for the café owner.

Ann chovies, owner of the perfect pasta pizza parlor, uses 20 pounds of pepperoni each day in preparing pizzas. order costs for pepperoni are $10.00 per order, and carrying costs are 4 cents per pound per day. lead time for each order is three days, and the pepperoni itself costs $3.00 per pound. if she were to order 80 pounds of pepperoni at a time, what would be the average inventory level?

Which of the following statements is true of unsought products? as compared to convenience products, unsought products are purchased more frequently. unsought products are consumer products and services that customers usually buy frequently, immediately, and with minimal comparison and buying effort. a life insurance policy is an example of an unsought product. unsought products have strong brand identification for which a significant group of buyers is willing to make a special purchase effort. unsought products are those products purchased for further processing or for use in conducting a business.