Cormorant Corp. manufactured equipment at a cost of $600,000 and leased it to Boreal Corp. on January 1, year 9 for an eight-year period expiring December 31, year 16. Eight years is considered a major part of the asset’s economic life. Equal payments under the lease are $60,000 and are due on January 1 and July 1 of each year. The first payment was made on January 1, year 9. The list selling price of the equipment is $750,000 and the implicit rate used by Cormorant is 8%. What amount of selling profit or loss should Cormorant report for the year ended December 31, year 9?

What is product differentiation, and how can it be achieved ? what is product positioning? what conditions would head to head product positioning be appropriate?

The amberssen specialty company is a chain of twelve retail stores that sell a variety of imported gift items, gourmet chocolates, cheeses, and wines in the toronto area. amberssen has an is staff of three people who have created a simple but effective information system of networked point-of-sale registers at the stores and a centralized accounting system at the company head- quarters. harry hilman, the head of amberssens is group, has just received the following memo from bill amberssen, sales director (and son of amberssen’s founder). harry—it’s time amberssen specialty launched itself on the internet. many of our competitors are already there, selling to customers without the expense of a retail storefront, and we should be there too. i project that we could double or triple our annual revenues by selling our products on the internet. i’d like to have this ready by - giving, in time for the prime holiday gift-shopping season. bill after pondering this memo for several days, harry scheduled a meeting with bill so that he could clarify bill’s vision of this venture. using the standard con- tent of a system request as your guide, prepare a list of questions that harry needs to have answered about this project.

Carmen co. can further process product j to produce product d. product j is currently selling for $20 per pound and costs $15.75 per pound to produce. product d would sell for $38 per pound and would require an additional cost of $8.55 per pound to produce. what is the differential revenue of producing product d?