Chapter 8 explains that price changes caused by inflation or deflation are an economic business reality that can affect the comparison of alternates. The focus underlies with incorporating price changes into before-tax and after-tax engineering economy studies. Chapter 9 expresses the importance in relation to a replacement study, compared to the best challenger with the defender. The best economic challenger is described as the one with the lowest AW of costs for some period of years. When a study period is specified, it is vital that market value and cost estimates for the defender be as accurate as possible. Briefly discuss what is meant by the concept of "defender" and "challenger." After posting your response, review your classmates' posts and make thoughtful and substantive responses to at least two others by the posted due date.

Gino's restaurant is a popular restaurant in boston, massachusetts. the owner of the restaurant has been trying to better understand costs at the restaurant and has hired a student intern to conduct an activity-based costing study. the intern, in consultation with the owner, identified the following major activities: activity cost pool activity measure serving a party of diners number of parties served serving a diner number of diners served serving drinks number of drinks ordered some costs, such as the cost of cleaning the linens that cover the restaurant's tables, vary with the number of parties served. other costs, such as washing plates and glasses, depends on the number of diners served or the number of drinks served. data concerning these activities are shown below. serving a party serving a dinner serving drinks total total cost $47,600 $153,000 $59,800 $260,400 total activity 7,000 parties 30,000 diners 46,000 drinks prior to the activity-based costing study, the owner knew very little about the costs of the restaurant. she knew that the total cost for the month was $260,400 and that 30,000 diners had been served. therefore, the average cost per diner was $8.68.required: 1. compute the activity rates for each of the three activities 2. according to the activity-based costing system, what is the total cost of serving each of the following parties of diners? a. a party of four diners who ordered three drinks in total b. a party of two diners who do not order any drinks c. a lone diner who orders two drinks 3. convert the total costs you computed in part (1) above to costs per diner. in other words, what is the average cost per diner for serving each of the following parties: a. a party of four diners who order three drinks in total b. a party of two diner who do not order any drinks c. a lone diner who orders two drinks 4. why do the costs per diner for the three different parties differ from each other and from the overall average coast of $9.80 per diner?

Using the exxon data as an example what would be the market capitalization of penny's pickles if each share is selling for $175.35?

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