In an effort to boost his department's roi, the manager of an automobile repair shop prioritizes repairs that use his department's car lift (its major capital investment). however, the car company's ceo would actually prefer that a more comprehensive approach to car repairs be used across multiple departments. the ceo's favored approach would be better for the company overall, although it would hurt the department manager's personal roi. which of the following would be an appropriate response?

a. no response is needed. the manager should continue to prioritize his own roi.
b. the company should eliminate roi entirely from its performance evaluations since it can be so easily abused.
c. the company should combine multiple divisions together so roi is better aligned with the ceo's goals.
d. the company should consider adopting multiple performance measures, in addition to roi, to evaluate the department manager's performance in line with the company's overall objectives.

Mr. smith recently faced a choice between being (a) an economics profes-sor, which pays $60,000/yr, or (b) a safari leader, which pays $50,000/yr. after careful deliberation, smith took the safari job, but it was a close call. "for a dollar more," he said, "i'd have gone the other way."now smith's brother-in-law approaches him with a business proposition. the terms are as follows: - smith must resign his safari job to work full-time in his brother-in-law's business.- smith must give his brother-in-law an interest-free loan of $100,000, which will be repaid in full if and when smith leaves the business. (smith currently has much more than $100,000 in the the business will pay smith a salary of $70,000/yr. he will receive no other payment from the business.the interest rate is 10 percent per year. apart from salary considerations, smith feels that working in the business would be just as enjoyable as being an economics professor. for simplicity, assume there is no uncertainty regarding either smith's salary in the proposed business or the security of his monetary investment in it. should smith join his brother-in-law and, if so, how small would smith's salary from the business have to be to make it not worthwhile for him to join? if not, how large would smith's salary from the business have to be to make it worthwhile for him to join?

Identify an organization with the low-total-cost value proposition and suggest at least two possible measures within each of the four balanced scorecard perspectives.

The following are budgeted data: january february march sales in units 16,200 22,400 19,200 production in units 19,200 20,200 18,700 one pound of material is required for each finished unit. the inventory of materials at the end of each month should equal 20% of the following month's production needs. purchases of raw materials for february would be budgeted to be: