Office Total Company Chicago Minneapolis
Sales $460,000 100% $155,000 100% $305,000 100%
Variable expenses 229,500 50% 46,500 30% 183,000 60%
Contribution margin 230,500 50% 108,500 70% 122,000 40%
Traceable fixed expenses 129,400 28% 80,600 52% 48,800 16%
Office segment margin 101,100 22% $27,900 18% $73,200 24%
Common fixed expenses not traceable to offices 64,400 14%
Net operating income $36,700 8%

Required:
By how much would the company’s net operating income increase if Minneapolis increased its sales by $56,250 per year?

Alyssa works for an engineering firm that has been hired to design and supervise the construction of a highway bridge over a major river. the bridge will be a unique design, incorporating complex designs that will likely never be duplicated. how should alyssa deal with designing and overseeing the building of the bridge?

Which of the following statements is true? a job costing system will have a separate work in process account for each of the major processes. a process costing system will have a single work in process account. a process costing system will have a separate raw materials account for each of the major processes. a process costing system will have a separate work in process account for each of the major processes.

A) plot the m1 and m2 money stock in the us from 1990-2015. (hint: you may use the data tools provided by fred.) (b) plot the nominal interest rate from 1960 to 2014. (hint: you can either use the daily interest rates for selected u.s. treasury, private money market and capital market instruments from or the effective federal funds rate fromfred.) (c) the consumer price index (cpi) is a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services. intuitively, the cpi represents the cost of living or the average price level. plot the cpi from 1960 to 2013.(d) the inflation rate is the yearly percentage change in the average price level. in practice, we usually use the percentage change in the cpi to compute the inflation rate. plot the inflation rate from 1960 to 2013.(e) explain the difference between the ex-ante and ex-post real interest rate. use the fisher equation to compute the ex-post real interest rate. plot the nominal interest rate and the ex-post real interest rate from 1960 to 2013 in the same graph.