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The gomez company, a merchandising firm, has budgeted its activity for december according to the following information: • sales at $500,000, all for cash. • merchandise inventory on november 30 was $250,000. • the cash balance at december 1 was $20,000. • selling and administrative expenses are budgeted at $50,000 for december and are paid for in cash. • budgeted depreciation for december is $30,000. • the planned merchandise inventory on december 31 is $260,000. • the cost of goods sold represents 75% of the selling price. • all purchases are paid for in cash. the budgeted cash disbursements for december are:

You are working on a bid to build two city parks a year for the next three years. this project requires the purchase of $249,000 of equipment that will be depreciated using straight-line depreciation to a zero book value over the three-year project life. ignore bonus depreciation. the equipment can be sold at the end of the project for $115,000. you will also need $18.000 in net working capital for the duration of the project. the fixed costs will be $37000 a year and the variable costs will be $148,000 per park. your required rate of return is 14 percent and your tax rate is 21 percent. what is the minimal amount you should bid per park? (round your answer to the nearest $100) (a) $214,300 (b) $214,100 (c) $212,500 (d) $208,200 (e) $208,400

Advanced enterprises reports year-end information from 2018 as follows: sales (160,250 units) $968,000 cost of goods sold 641,000 gross margin 327,000 operating expenses 263,000 operating income $64,000 advanced is developing the 2019 budget. in 2019 the company would like to increase selling prices by 14.5%, and as a result expects a decrease in sales volume of 9%. all other operating expenses are expected to remain constant. assume that cost of goods sold is a variable cost and that operating expenses are a fixed cost. should advanced increase the selling price in 2019?