Exercise 24-1 Payback period computation; uneven cash flows LO P1Beyer Company is considering the purchase of an asset for $270,000. It is expected to produce the following net cash flows. The cash flows occur evenly within each year. Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5TotalNet cash flows $66,000 $39,000 $67,000 $200,000 $22,000 $394,000 Compute the payback period for this investment. (Cumulative net cash outflows must be entered with a minus sign. Round your Payback Period answer to 2 decimal place.)

Haley photocopying purchases a paper from an out-of-state vendor. average weekly demand for paper is 150 cartons per week for which haley pays $15 per carton. in bound shipments from the vendor average 1000 cartoons with an average lead time of 3 weeks. haley operates 52 weeks per year; it carries a 4-week supply of inventory as safety stock and no anticipation inventory. the vendor has recently announced that they will be building a faculty near haley photocopying that will reduce lead time to one week. further, they will be able to reduce shipments to 200 cartons. haley believes that they will be able to reduce safety stock to a 1-week supply. what impact will these changes make to haley’s average inventory level and its average aggregated inventory value?