The cook corporation has two divisions--east and west. the divisions have the following revenues and expenses: east westsales $ 575,000 $ 507,000 variable costs 168,000 301,000 traceable fixed costs 165,000 193,000 allocated common corporate costs 128,300 157,000 net operating income (loss) $ 113,700 $ (144,000 )
the management of cook is considering the elimination of the west division. if the west division were eliminated, its traceable fixed costs could be avoided. total common corporate costs would be unaffected by this decision. given these data, the elimination of the west division would result in an overall company net operating income (loss) of: multiple choicea. $113,700b. $(43,300)c. $(144,000)d. $(30,300)

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?