When aksed if a company should drop a product, a segment or line of business, what is a key question that should first be asked? A. Consider only the sales revenue of the product in making the decision. B. Will any of the fixed costs go away? If yes, ignore them in the decision process. C. Consider only the operating income and loss of the product in making the decision. D. Will any of the fixed costs go away? If no, ignore them in the decision process.

If we know that a firm has a net profit margin of 4.6 %, total asset turnover of 0.62, and a financial leverage multiplier of 1.54, what is its roe? what is the advantage to using the dupont system to calculate roe over the direct calculation of earnings available for common stockholders divided by common stock equity?

Tandard product costs deerfield company manufactures product m in its factory. production of m requires 2 pounds of material p, costing $4 per pound and 0.5 hour of direct labor costing, $10 per hour. the variable overhead rate is $8 per direct labor hour, and the fixed overhead rate is $12 per direct labor hour. what is the standard product cost for product m? direct material answer direct labor answer variable overhead answer fixed overhead answer standard product cost per unit answer

Needs to schedule the staffing of the center. it is open from 8am until midnight. larry has monitored the usage of the center at various times of the day and determined that the following number of computer consultants are required: time of dayminimum number of consultants required to be on duty8 am-noon4noon-4 pm84pm-8pm108pm-midnight6 two types of computer consultants can be hired: full-time and part-time. the full- time consultants work for eight consecutive hours in any of the shifts: morning (8am- 4pm), afternoon (noon-8pm) and evening (4pm-midnight). full-time consultants are paid $14 per hour. part-time consultants can be hired to work any of the four shifts listed in the table. part-time consultants are paid $12 per hour. an additional requirement is that during every time period, there must be at least two full-time consultants on duty for every part-time consultant on duty. larry would like to determine how many full-time and part-time consultants should work each shift to meet the above requirements at the minimum possible cost. formulate this as an lp problem. you must define your variables clearly