The following data have been provided by the finance director of La Pitch which manufactures high-quality tents for the specialist outdoor market. The marketing director wants to reduce the price of the tents to $\$ 39.99$ (he considers this to be a psychologically attractive price to consumers) to increase sales volume but there are concerns about reducing unit contribution and covering costs. There are also concerns about exceeding La Pitch's factory capacity.

• direct labour per unit $17

• direct materials per unit$\$18$

• fixed costs $\$ 200000$

• current selling price $\$ 45$

• maximum capacity of the factory is $30000$ units

On the basis of La Pitch's financial information construct a fully labelled break-even chart. Calculate the break-even point, the margin of safety and profit from the sale of $25000$ tents.

In this activity, you will create a personal budget. You will keep track of your finances for one month and then compute budget variances. Refer to your personal income and expense statement to see income and expense items you have already identified.

Review the personal budget.

Use Corollary 11.13 to show that if $\mathbf{u}$ is a point in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ and r is a positive number, then the set

$$\left\{\mathbf{v} \text { in } \mathbb{R}^{n} | \text { dist }(\mathbf{u}, \mathbf{v}) \leq r\right\}$$

is closed in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$.

Change to exponential form.

$$\ln z=7+x$$

Determine the electron geometry, molecular geometry, and polarity of $\ce{SF6}$.

A cruise ship with a mass of $1.00 \times 10^{7}\ \mathrm{kg}$ strikes a pier at a speed of 0.750 m/s. It comes to rest 6.00 m later, damaging the ship, the pier, and the tugboat captain's finances. Calculate the average force exerted on the pier using the concept of impulse.

Calculate the molecular mass (in amu) of substance $\mathrm{SO}_2$

Star Studios is looking to purchase a new building for its upcoming film productions. The company finds a suitable location that has a list price of $1,600,000. The seller gives Star Studios the following purchase options: 1. Pay$1,600,000 immediately. 2. Pay $600,000 immediately and then pay$150,000 each year over the next 10 years, with the first payment due in one year. 3. Make 10 annual installments of $250,000, with the first payment due in one year. 4. Make a single payment of$2,300,000 at the end of five years. Determine the lowest-cost alternative for Star Studios, assuming that the company can borrow funds to finance the purchase at 8%.

Mark Sexton and Todd Story, the owners of S&S Air, have planned to expand their operations. They instructed their newly hired financial analyst, Chris Guthrie, to enlist an underwriter to help sell $35 million in new 10-year bonds to finance construction. Chris has entered into conversations with Renata Harper, an underwriter from the firm of Raines and Warren, about which bond features S&S Air should consider and what coupon rate the issue will likely have.

&emsp: Although Chris is aware of the bond features, he is uncertain about the costs and benefits of some features, so he isn’t sure how each feature would affect the coupon rate of the bond issue. You are Renata’s assistant, and she has asked you to prepare a memo to Chris describing the effect of each of the following bond features on the coupon rate of the bond. She would also like you to list any advantages or disadvantages of each feature.

QUESTION

Any positive covenants. Also, discuss several possible positive covenants S&S Air might consider.

For a metric space X and a positive number r, can one have $\mathcal{B}_{r}(p)=\mathcal{B}_{r}(q)$ and yet $p \neq q$? Can this happen in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ with the Euclidean metric?

List the general functions of all circulatory systems.

A labor union is testing whether a professional development program in a certain industry has been successful in raising the scores of new employees on a standardized test. The given tables contain data for each of two companies in the industry. The data for each company show the scores of the new employees who have undergone the professional development program (the treatment group) and the scores of those who have not (the control group). The data for Company A are shown below.

a. Determine the null hypothesis for the experiment.

b. Compare the results for the control group and the treatment group. Determine whether the researcher has enough evidence to reject the null hypothesis.

Union Market Wholesale Ltd and RFL Wholesale are two major wholesale organisations that supply small and medium-sized retail businesses.

$$\begin{array}{|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|} \hline & \textbf{ Debtors } & \textbf{ Inventories } & \textbf{ Cost of } & \textbf{ Revenue } & \textbf{ Capital } & \textbf{ Long-term } & \textbf{ Creditors } & \textbf{ Credit } \\ &\textbf{ (\$m) } & \textbf{ 31 December} & \textbf{ sales 2014 } & \textbf{ 2014 (\$m) } & \textbf{ employed } & \textbf{ loans 31 } & \textbf{ (accounts } & \textbf{ purchases } \\ && \textbf{ 2014 (\$m) } & \textbf{ (\$m) } && \textbf{ (\$m)} & \textbf { December } & \textbf{ payable) } & \textbf{ 2014 (\$m) } \\ &&&&&& \textbf{ 2014 (\$m) } & \textbf{ 31 December }\\ &&&&&&& \textbf{ 2014 (\$m) } \\ \hline\text { Union Market } & 300 & 73 & 580 & 1120 & 1575 & 500 & 58 & 300 \\ \text { Wholesale Ltd } \\ \hline \text { RFL Wholesale } & 330 & 150 & 750 & 1460 & 2050 & 1025 & 105 & 550 \\ \hline \end{array}$$

RFL Wholesale is planning to invest in a new expansion project costing $\$ 75$ million. It is considering raising finance either by selling inventories or by taking a bank loan. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of these two options.

On the first day of its fiscal year, Pretender Company issued $\$ 18,500,000$ of five-year, $10 \%$ bonds to finance its operations of producing and selling home improvement products. Interest is payable semiannually. The bonds were issued at a market (effective) interest rate of $12 \%$, resulting in Pretender Company receiving cash of $\$ 17,138,298$. a. Journalize the entries to record the following:

1. Issuance of the bonds.
2. First semiannual interest payment. The bond discount is combined with the semiannual interest payment. (Round your answer to the nearest dollar.)
3. Second semiannual interest payment. The bond discount is combined with the semiannual interest payment. (Round your answer to the nearest dollar.)