The tri-star company currently use an old lathe that was purchase 2 years ago at $6000. This machine is being depreciatin on a MACRS five year (20%, 32%, 19%, 12%, 11%, 6%). The current market value for this machine is $3,000. The proposed new improved lathe cost $10,000 and additional installation fee of $1,000. The new lathe would require that inventories be increased by $800 and account receivable increase $600, but accounts payable would simultaneously increase by $700. Tri-Star's marginal federal-plus-state tax rate is 30%. What is the initial investment of company when evaluating the replacement of old lathe by the new one?

Consider the following ethical argument. which of the three statements represents the moral statement about a moral principle? statement 1: a dealership advertised a car at a very low price, but only had a similar higher priced model in stock. statement 2: it is wrong to perform a bait and switch. statement 3: the dealership was wrong to advertise the car on special sale when in actually it was not available.

Electronics assembly inc. is a contract manufacturer that assembles consumer electronics for a number of companies. currently, the operations manager is assessing the capacity requirements as input into a bid for a job to assemble cell phones for a major global company. the company would assemble three models of cell phones in the same assembly cell. setup time between the phones is negligible. electronics assembly inc. operates two 8-hour shifts for 275 days per year. cell phone demand forecast (phones/year) processing time (minutes/phone) mars 47,000 19.8 saturn 35,000 20.7 neptune 7,500 16.2 a. calculate total capacity required by line. b. determine the total operating time available. c. calculate the total number of assembly cells. (round up your answer to the next whole number.)

How has apple been able to sustain its competitive advantage in the smartphone industry? a. by reducing its network effects b. by targeting its new products and services toward laggards c. by driving the price for the end user to zero d. by regularly introducing incremental improvements in its products