Joyner Pickled Pepper Company produces pickled jalapeno pepper relish. Selected results from the most current year were as follows: Sales revenue $3,375,000Operating income $540,000Average total assets $1,687,500Production manager Veronica Brockman is investigating the purchase of a new brining station that will increase the plant's production capacity. Based on her research, Veronica thinks the station would cost $762,500 and would increase sales revenue by $300,000 and operating profit by $66,375.Required:a) Calculate Joyner's current margin, asset turnover, and return on investment. b) Calculate Joyner's margin, asset turnover, and return on investment assuming the company purchases the new brining station. c) Assume Veronica Joyner's annual bonus is based on the company's return on investment. Will Veronica support the purchase of the new brining station? Why or why not?

Suppose that kenji, an economist from an am talk radio program, and lucia, an economist from a school of industrial relations, are arguing over health insurance. the following dialogue shows an excerpt from their debate: lucia: a popular topic for debate among politicians as well as economists is the idea of providing government assistance for health benefits. kenji: i think it is oppressive for the government to tax people who take care of themselves in order to pay for health insurance for those who are obese. lucia: i disagree. i think government funding of health insurance is useful to ensure basic fairness. the disagreement between these economists is most likely due to . despite their differences, with which proposition are two economists chosen at random most likely to agree? lawyers make up an excessive percentage of elected officials. minimum wage laws do more to harm low-skilled workers than them. tariffs and import quotas generally reduce economic welfare.

In each of the following, what happens to the unemployment rate? does the unemployment rate give an accurate impression of what’s happening in the labor market? a. esther lost her job and begins looking for a new one. b.sam, a steelworker who has been out of work since his mill closed last year, becomes discouraged and gives up looking for work. c.dan, the sole earner in his family of 5, just lost his $90,000 job as a research scientist. immediately, he takes a part-time job at starbucks until he can find another job in his field.

You are the manager of a large crude-oil refinery. as part of the refining process, a certain heat exchanger (operated at high temperatures and with abrasive material flowing through it) must be replaced every year. the replacement and downtime cost in the first year is $165 comma 000. this cost is expected to increase due to inflation at a rate of 7% per year for six years (i. e. until the eoy 7), at which time this particular heat exchanger will no longer be needed. if the company's cost of capital is 15% per year, how much could you afford to spend for a higher quality heat exchanger so that these annual replacement and downtime costs could be eliminated?