An automobile final assembly plant has an annual production capacity of 200,000 cars. the plant operates 50 weeks/yr, 2 shifts/day, 5 days/week, and 8.0 hours/shift. it is divided into three departments: (1) body shop, (2) paint shop, and (3) trim-chassis-final department. the body shop welds the car bodies using robots, and the paint shop coats the bodies. both of these departments are highly automated. trim-chassis-final has no automated workstations. cars are moved by a continuous conveyor. there are 15.0 hours of work content time on each car in this department. if the average manning level is 2.2, balancing efficiency = 93%, proportion uptime = 95%, and a repositioning time of 0.15 min is allowed for each worker, determine
(a) hourly production rate of the plant.
(b) number of workers and workstations in trim-chassis-final.
(c) what is the average labor cost per car in trim-chassis-final if the hourly worker rate = $35 and fringe benefits add $20/hr. ignore cost of supervision, maintenance, and other indirect labor.

Lo.2, 3, 9 lori, who is single, purchased 5-years class property for $200,00 and 7-years class property for $420,000 on may 20, 2018. lori experts the taxable income derived form the business (without regard to the amount expensed under ⧠179) to be about $550,000. lori has determined that she should elect immediate ⧠179 expensing in the amount of $520,000, but she doesn’t know which asset she should completely expense under ⧠179. she does not claim any available additional first-year depreciation. a. determine lori’s total cost recovery deduction if the ⧠179 expense is first taken with respect to the 5-year class asset. b. determine lori’s total cost recovery deduction if the ⧠179 expense is first taken with respect to the 7-year class asset. c. what is your advice for lori? d. assume that lori is in the 24% marginal tax bracket and that she uses ⧠179 on the 7-year asset. determine the present value of the tax savings from the depreciation deductions for both assets. see appendix g for present value factors, and assume a 6% discount rate. e. assume the same facts as in part (d), except that lori decides not to use ⧠179 on either asset. determine the present value of the tax savings under this choice. in addition, determine which option lori should choose. f. present your solution to parts (d) and (e) of the problem in a spreadsheet using appropriate microsoft excel formulas. e-mail your spreadsheet to your instructor with a two-paragraph summary of your findings.

The textbook defines ethics as “the principles of conduct governing an individual or a group,” and specifically as the standards one uses to decide what their conduct should be. to what extent do you believe that what happened at bp (british petrolium) is as much a breakdown in the company’s ethical systems as it is in its safety systems, and how would you defend your conclusion?

Why is investing in a mutual fund less risky than investing in a particular company’s stock?