Ms. Aura is a psychic. The demand for her services is given by Q= 2,000 –10P, where Qis the number of one-hour sessions per year and Pis the price of each session. Her marginal revenue is MR= 200 –0.2Q. Ms. Aura’s operation has no fixed costs, but she incurs a cost of $150 per session (going to the client’s house).a. What is Ms. Aura’s yearly profit?Find the number of sessions that Ms. Aura will provide by equating the marginal revenue to the marginal cost of a session: setting MR = MC yields 200 –0.2Q = 150 which solves as Q = 250. The price that would generate demand for 250 sessions is $175 as 2,000 –10(175) = 250. Thus, her annual profit is 175(250) –150(250) = $6,250 per year.

Kinkead inc. forecasts that its free cash flow in the coming year, i.e., at t = 1, will be −$10 million, but its fcf at t = 2 will be $20 million. after year 2, fcf is expected to grow at a constant rate of 4% forever. if the weighted average cost of capital is 14%, what is the firm's value of operations, in millions?

What are the general categories of capital budget scenarios? describe the overall decision-making context for each.

Zachary company produces commercial gardening equipment. since production is highly automated, the company allocates its overhead costs to product lines using activity-based costing. the costs and cost drivers associated with the four overhead activity cost pools follow: activities unit level batch level product level facility level cost $ 64,800 $ 27,730 $ 15,000 $ 154,000 cost driver 2,400 labor hrs. 47 setups percentage of use 11,000 units production of 780 sets of cutting shears, one of the company’s 20 products, took 240 labor hours and 7 setups and consumed 15 percent of the product-sustaining activities. required: (a) had the company used labor hours as a company wide allocation base, how much overhead would it have allocated to the cutting shears? (b) how much overhead is allocated to the cutting shears using activity-based costing? (c) compute the overhead cost per unit for cutting shears first using activity-based costing and then using direct labor hours for allocation if 780 units are produced. if direct product costs are $150 and the product is priced at 30 percent above cost for what price would the product sell under each allocation system? (d) assuming that activity-based costing provides a more accurate estimate of cost, indicate whether the cutting shears would be over- or underpriced if direct labor hours are used as an allocation base. explain how over-or undercosting can affect vaulker's profitability. (e) comment on the validity of using the allocated facility-level cost in the pricing decision. should other costs be considered in a cost- plus pricing decision? if so, which ones? what costs would you include if you were trying to decide whether to accept a special order?