Omkara, a furniture manufacturer, contracts with foam gnome for $50,000 worth of foam, which omkara will use for making ten sofas she has agreed to make for dukeâs furniture. a day before gnome is going to ship the foam to omkara, a flood destroys its entire inventory. gnome tells omkara it cannot send her the foam in time, but tells her that firmfoam can supply her with an identical shipment for $65,000. this increase in price will wipe out twenty percent of omkaraâs profit from her contract with dukeâs. omkara wants to get out of both contracts. can she

Aproduction line has three machines a, b, and c, with reliabilities of .96, .86, and .85, respectively. the machines are arranged so that if one breaks down, the others must shut down. engineers are weighing two alternative designs for increasing the line’s reliability. plan 1 involves adding an identical backup line, and plan 2 involves providing a backup for each machine. in either case, three machines (a, b, and c) would be used with reliabilities equal to the original three. a. compute overall system reliability under plan 1. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability b. compute overall system reliability under plan 2. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability c. which plan will provide the higher reliability? plan2plan1

You are the cfo of a u.s. firm whose wholly owned subsidiary in mexico manufactures component parts for your u.s. assembly operations. the subsidiary has been financed by bank borrowings in the united states. one of your analysts told you that the mexican peso is expected to depreciate by 30 percent against the dollar on the foreign exchange markets over the next year. what actions, if any, should you take

Match the different taxes to the levels at which these taxes are levied on consumers and businesses national level/ national and local levels 1.sales tax 2.income tax 3.payroll tax 4.social security tax 4.property tax