Mohammed owns a bakery. He makes bread and cakes. He employs three workers who help him mix the dough for the bread and cakes, put the dough into tins, bake the bread and cakes, and serve customers. Mohammed has calculated that the ‘added value’ of his business is low. His customers complain when he tries to increase his prices. ‘We can buy the same bread and cakes at lower prices,’ they tell him.. a Define ‘added value’.

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b Identify the opportunity cost to Mohammed of buying a new
oven.

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c Outline two benefits to Mohammed’s business of all of his
workers being able to do all of the jobs in the bakery.

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d Explain two ways in which Mohammed could increase the value
added of his bakery business.

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e A friend told Mohammed, ‘Your business would be more
successful if you only served in the shop and let your workers
make the bread and cakes.’ Do you agree? Justify your answer.
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At a student café, there are equal numbers of two types of customers with the following values. the café owner cannot distinguish between the two types of students because many students without early classes arrive early anyway (i. e., she cannot price-discriminate). students with early classes students without early classes coffee 70 60 banana 51 101 the marginal cost of coffee is 10 and the marginal cost of a banana is 40. the café owner is considering three pricing strategies: 1. mixed bundling: price bundle of coffee and a banana for 161, or just a coffee for 70. 2. price separately: offer coffee at 60, price a banana at 101. 3. bundle only: coffee and a banana for 121. do not offer goods separately. assume that if the price of an item or bundle is no more than exactly equal to a student's willingness to pay, then the student will purchase the item or bundle. for simplicity, assume there is just one student with an early class, and one student without an early class. price strategy revenue from pricing strategy cost from pricing strategy profit from pricing strategy 1. mixed bundling $ $ $ 2. price separately $ $ $ 3. bundle only $ $ $ pricing strategy yields the highest profit for the café owner.

The following information is available for ellen's fashions, inc. for the current month. book balance end of month $ 7 comma 000 outstanding checks 700 deposits in transit 4 comma 500 service charges 120 interest revenue 45 what is the adjusted book balance on the bank reconciliation?

Which of the following entries would be made to record the requisition of $12,000 of direct materials and $6,900 of indirect materials? (assume that indirect materials are included in raw materials inventory.) a. manufacturing overhead 18,900 raw materials inventory 18,900 b. wip inventory 12,000 manufacturing overhead 6,900 raw materials inventory 18,900 c. raw materials inventory 18,900 wip inventory 18,900 d. wip inventory 18,900 raw materials inventory 18,900