Roberts Company manufactures and sells one product. The following information pertains to each of the company’s first three years of operations:
Variable costs per unit:
Manufacturing:
Direct materials $ 22
Direct labor $14
Variable manufacturing overhead $5
Variable selling and administrative expenses $3
Fixed costs per year:
Fixed manufacturing overhead $270,000
Fixed selling and administrative expenses $210,000

During its first year of operations Roberts produced 60,000 units and sold 60,000 units. During its second year of operations it produced 75,000 units and sold 50,000 units. In its third year, Roberts produced 40,000 units and sold 65,000 units. The selling price of the company’s product is $52 per unit.

Compute the company’s break-even point in units sold.

Andrea cujoli is a currency speculator who enjoys "betting" on changes in the foreign currency exchange market. currently the spot price for the japanese yen is ¥129.87/$ and the 6-month forward rate is ¥128.53/$. andrea would earn a higher rate of return by buying yen and a forward contract than if she had invested her money in 6-month us treasury securities at an annual rate of 2.50%. true/false?

Which of the following statements is (are) true? i. free entry to a perfectly competitive industry results in the industry's firms earning zero economic profit in the long run, except for the most efficient producers, who may earn economic rent. ii. in a perfectly competitive market, long-run equilibrium is characterized by lmc < p < latc. iii. if a competitive industry is in long-run equilibrium, a decrease in demand causes firms to earn negative profit because the market price will fall below average total cost.

Rate of return douglas keel, a financial analyst for orange industries, wishes to estimate the rate of return for two similar-risk investments, x and y. douglas's research indicates that the immediate past returns will serve as reasonable estimates of future returns. a year earlier, investment x had a market value of $27 comma 000; and investment y had a market value of $46 comma 000. during the year, investment x generated cash flow of $2 comma 025 and investment y generated cash flow of $ 6 comma 770. the current market values of investments x and y are $28 comma 582 and $46 comma 000, respectively. a. calculate the expected rate of return on investments x and y using the most recent year's data. b. assuming that the two investments are equally risky, which one should douglas recommend? why?