Each week, Wilson Water incurs total costs of $56,500 to filter natural spring water. The firm can then bottle the water as is, or it can spend $8,000 to carbonate the water prior to bottling. Daily revenues for the plain water are $144,000 while those for the carbonated water are $150,000. If Wilson is currently selling plain water and wants to continue doing so next week, which of the following changes would it LEAST want to see in the week ahead? a. A $2,000 increase in the cost of filtering the spring water accompanied by a $1,600 decrease in the cost of carbonating the water.
b. A $1,500 increase in the cost of filtering the spring water accompanied by a $1,000 decrease in the cost of carbonating the water.
c. A $3.000 decrease in the cost of carbonating the water.
d. A $2,500 decrease in the cost of carbonating the water

Big trail running company has started to produce running apparel in addition to the trail running shoes that they have manufactured for years. they feel that a departmental overhead rate would best reflect their overall manufacturing overhead usage. based on research the following information was gathered for the upcoming year: machining department finishing department estimated manufacturing overhead by department $ 600 comma 000 $ 400 comma 000 trail running shoes 440 comma 000 machine hours 11 comma 000 direct labor hours running apparel 60 comma 000 machine hours 39 comma 000 direct labor hours manufacturing overhead is driven by machine hours for the machining department and direct labor hours for the finishing department. at the end of the year, the following information was gathered related to the production of the trail running shoes and running apparel: machining department finishing department trail running shoes 442 comma 000 hours 10 comma 500 hours running apparel 57 comma 000 hours 40 comma 000 hours how much manufacturing overhead will be allocated to the trail running shoes

Microsoft's stock price peaked at 6118% of its ipo price more than 13 years after the ipo suppose that $10,000 invested in microsoft at its ipo price had been worth $600,000 (6000% of the ipo price) after exactly 13 years. what interest rate, compounded annually, does this represent? (round your answer to two decimal places.)

After successfully completing your corporate finance class, you feel the next challenge ahead is to serve on the board of directors of schenkel enterprises. unfortunately, you will be the only person voting for you. the company has 375,000 shares outstanding, and the stock currently sells for $40, if there are four seats in the current election, how much will it cost you to buy a seat?