Financial decisions. which of the following are investment decisions, and which are financing decisions? (lo1-1) a. should we stock up with inventory ahead of the holiday season? b. do we need a bank loan to buy the inventory? c. should we develop a new software package to manage our inventory? d. with a new automated inventory management system, it may be possible to sell off our birdlip warehouse. e. with the savings we make from our new inventory system, it may be possible to increase our dividend. f. alternatively, we can use the savings to repay some of our long-term debt.

Acompany set up a petty cash fund with $800. the disbursements are as follows: office supplies $300 shipping $50 postage $30 delivery expense $350 to create the fund, which account should be credited? a. postage b. cash at bank c. supplies d. petty cash

Robert black, regional manager for ford in texas and oklahoma, faced a dilemma. the ford f-150 pickup truck was the best-selling pickup ever, yet ford's headquarters in detroit had decided to introduce a completely redesigned f-150. how could mr. black sell both trucks at the same time? he still had "old" f-150s in stock. in his advertising, mr. black referred to the new f-150s as follows: "not a better f-150. just the only truck good enough to be the next f-150." this statement represents ford's of the new f-150.

Suppose that two firms produce differentiated products and compete in prices. as in class, the two firms are located at two ends of a line one mile apart. consumers are evenly distributed along the line. the firms have identical marginal cost, $60. firm b produces a product with value $110 to consumers.firm a (located at 0 on the unit line) produces a higher quality product with value $120 to consumers. the cost of travel are directly related to the distance a consumer travels to purchase a good. if a consumerhas to travel a mile to purchase a good, the incur a cost of $20. if they have to travel x fraction of a mile, they incur a cost of $20x. (a) write down the expressions for how much a consumer at location d would value the products sold by firms a and b, if they set prices p_{a} and p_{b} ? (b) based on your expressions in (a), how much will be demanded from each firm if prices p_{a} and p_{b} are set? (c) what are the nash equilibrium prices?