As a traveling salesman for Initech, Gabe spends a lot of time in his car. He is interested in purchasing a new (2020) Toyota Prius for $27,900 to reduce his environmental and financial impacts. The dealer suggests that the car will last for 15 years but that the battery will need to be replaced every 7 years. Each battery will cost $3,200 (regardless of the year of purchase), which includes the new battery and disposal of the spent battery. In addition to maintenance costs, which he estimates to be $536 per year, Gabe will also need to periodically recharge the battery. After investigating the local charging options, he believes that it will cost $0.06/mile driven to recharge the battery. At the end of the 15 year life of the car Gabe expects the car will have a salvage value of $3,250. Old batteries have no residual value. Gabe's MARR is 7% and he believes that he will drive 41,000 miles each year he owns the car. What is the cost per mile to own and operate this Prius?

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Arriving and delivering a load of company executives for a business meeting at a destination far from home base requiring an overnight stay, a company’s pilot requested approval from the company finance office to pay to either have the company’s jet brought into the fbo's hangar overnight to protect it from a forecast snowfall or to have it de-iced by the fbo the following morning well-before scheduled departure. the company was under considerable financial pressure at the time, and the pilot’s requests were denied because of the cost. so, early the following morning, the pilot was up on the wing of the jet sweeping off an accumulation of snow and ice with a borrowed push broom in preparation for the scheduled departure with the executives, but slipped and fell to the ground, suffering a broken neck. the business was organized as a limited partnership, owned by 3 limited partners and one general partner. as a cost-saving measure, the company had dropped its workers’ compensation insurance before the accident. analyze the potential liability for the pilot’s injuries of each of the following, showing your reasoning clearly: the company the general partner the limited partners analyze how the outcome would have been different, if the business had been organized as a corporation and observed all of the formalities to legitimize its corporate status. analyze how the outcome would have been different, if the pilot had been covered by workers’ compensation insurance.

"in my opinion, we ought to stop making our own drums and accept that outside supplier's offer," said wim niewindt, managing director of antilles refining, n. v., of aruba. "at a price of $21 per drum, we would be paying $4.70 less than it costs us to manufacture the drums in our own plant. since we use 70,000 drums a year, that would be an annual cost savings of $329,000." antilles refining's current cost to manufacture one drum is given below (based on 70,000 drums per year):