Great Cruiseline offers nightly dinner cruises departing from several cities on the eastern coast of the United States including Charleston, Baltimore, and Alexandria. Dinner cruise tickets sell for $ 50 per passenger. Great Cruiseline's variable cost of providing the dinner is $ 20 per passenger, and the fixed cost of operating the vessels (depreciation, salaries, docking fees, and other expenses) is $ 210 comma 000 per month. The company's relevant range extends to 18 comma 000 monthly passengers. If Great Cruiseline sells an additional 600 tickets, by what amount will its operating income increase (or operating loss decrease)?

If the ceo of a large, diversified, firm were filling out a fitness report on a division manager (i. e., "grading" the manager), which of the following situations would be likely to cause the manager to receive a better grade? in all cases, assume that other things are held constant. a. the division's basic earning power ratio is above the average of other firms in its industry. b. the division's total assets turnover ratio is below the average for other firms in its industry. c. the division's debt ratio is above the average for other firms in the industry. d. the division's inventory turnover is 6, whereas the average for its competitors is 8.e. the division's dso (days' sales outstanding) is 40, whereas the average for its competitors is 30.