The Coalatree company makes travel clothes, gear, hammocks, and blankets. The company has been successfully funded through Kickstarter for its new "Trailhead Pants" and now has enough funding to ramp up production and decrease the overall average expense per pant piece. This large order has made its production more efficient as the scale of its production rises. In terms of specialization, this is an example of:

Which of the following is a problem for the production of public goods?

Brandt enterprises is considering a new project that has a cost of $1,000,000, and the cfo set up the following simple decision tree to show its three most likely scenarios. the firm could arrange with its work force and suppliers to cease operations at the end of year 1 should it choose to do so, but to obtain this abandonment option, it would have to make a payment to those parties. how much is the option to abandon worth to the firm?

Here are the expected cash flows for three projects: cash flows (dollars) project year: 0 1 2 3 4 a − 6,100 + 1,275 + 1,275 + 3,550 0 b − 2,100 0 + 2,100 + 2,550 + 3,550 c − 6,100 + 1,275 + 1,275 + 3,550 + 5,550 a. what is the payback period on each of the projects? b. if you use a cutoff period of 2 years, which projects would you accept?