Fromme's Frocks has the following machine hours and production costs for the last six months of last year: Machine Production Cost Month July August September October November December Hours 16,400 14,900 12,900 16,900 16,200 13,500 $12,145 12,200 9,720 12,220 11,762 9,964 If Fromme expects to incur 12,000 machine hours in January, what will be the estimated total production cost using the high-low method?

a. $9,157.50
b. $8,676.92
c. $19,720.00
d. $7,500.00

Lambert manufacturing has $100,000 to invest in either project a or project b. the following data are available on these projects (ignore income taxes.): project a project b cost of equipment needed now $100,000 $60,000 working capital investment needed now - $40,000 annual cash operating inflows $40,000 $35,000 salvage value of equipment in 6 years $10,000 - both projects will have a useful life of 6 years and the total cost approach to net present value analysis. at the end of 6 years, the working capital investment will be released for use elsewhere. lambert's required rate of return is 14%. the net present value of project b is:

What do you think: would it be more profitable to own 200 shares of penny’s pickles or 1 share of exxon? why do you think that?

Retirement investment advisors, inc., has just offered you an annual interest rate of 4.4 percent until you retire in 40 years. you believe that interest rates will increase over the next year and you would be offered 5 percent per year one year from today. if you plan to deposit $13,000 into the account either this year or next year, how much more will you have when you retire if you wait one year to make your deposit?