Gerome International provides the following information relating to customers: A B C D E F
Total Sales $200,000 $900,000 $750,000 $500,000 $460,000 $2,810,000
COGS $75,000 $650,000 $490,000 $280,000 $350,000 $1,845,000
Selling costs $14,000 $85,000 $60,000 $45,000 $31,000 $235,000
Gerome International wants to identify its premium customers, i. e. customers who have an operating margin ratio of 30% or more. Which customers will qualify as premium customers?

Haley photocopying purchases a paper from an out-of-state vendor. average weekly demand for paper is 150 cartons per week for which haley pays $15 per carton. in bound shipments from the vendor average 1000 cartoons with an average lead time of 3 weeks. haley operates 52 weeks per year; it carries a 4-week supply of inventory as safety stock and no anticipation inventory. the vendor has recently announced that they will be building a faculty near haley photocopying that will reduce lead time to one week. further, they will be able to reduce shipments to 200 cartons. haley believes that they will be able to reduce safety stock to a 1-week supply. what impact will these changes make to haley’s average inventory level and its average aggregated inventory value?

Astudent finds data on an internet site that contains financial information about selected companies. he plans to analyze the data and use the results to develop a stock investment strategy. what kind of data source is he using? what concerns might you have about drawing conclusions from this data set?

If airlines do not change their prices how else might they try to compete with each other?