Gibson company, which produces and sells a small digital clock, bases its pricing strategy on a 25 percent markup on total cost. based on annual production costs for 12,000 units of product, computations for the sales price per clock follow: unit-level costs $ 276,000 fixed costs 60,000 total cost (a) 336,000 markup (a × 0.25) 84,000 total sales (b) $ 420,000 sales price per unit (b ÷ 12,000) $ 35 required gibson has excess capacity and receives a special order for 7,000 clocks for $28 each. calculate the contribution margin per unit. based on this, should gibson accept the special order?

Apharmaceutical packaging company (ppc) has decided to reorganize its processes into cells. the company has four different production operations, each requiring a unique piece of equipment. the names and functions of the four pieces of equipment are sort, count, place, and package. the company packages five different families of products (a, b, c, d, and e). the tables below indicate the demand (total units/day by product family), required operations, and operation cycle times for each product family. assume that any individual piece of equipment is available to operate 16 hours/day, but 2 hours (in total) are lost each day on each piece of equipment due to breaks and meetings when operators are not available to operate the equipment. how many minutes/day are available for production

Zapper has beginning equity of $257,000, net income of $51,000, dividends of $40,000 and investments by stockholders of $6,000. its ending equity is

Afirm wants to strengthen its financial position. which of the following actions would increase its current ratio? a. reduce the company's days' sales outstanding to the industry average and use the resulting cash savings to purchase plant and equipment.b. use cash to repurchase some of the company's own stock.c. borrow using short-term debt and use the proceeds to repay debt that has a maturity of more than one year.d. issue new stock, then use some of the proceeds to purchase additional inventory and hold the remainder as cash.e. use cash to increase inventory holdings.