Mimi’s Fixtures manufactures kitchen tiles in one plant, which has a practical capacity of 30,000 tiles. The variable cost of the tile is $18.00 per unit, and the fixed costs of the plant are $600,000 annually. Current annual demand is 25,000 tiles. Mimi bought the current plant because she expected that demand for the tiles would grow once her reputation was established. Required: a. What cost per tile should the cost system report? b. What is the cost of excess capacity? c. How would your answers to requirements (a) and (b) change if the smallest tile manufacturing plant that one could build (owing to technology) was able to produce 30,000 tiles?

Apopular low-cost airline, parson corp., has gone out of business. although the service and price provided by the airline was what customers wanted, the larger airlines were able to drive the low-cost airline out of business through an aggressive price war. which component of the competitive environment does this illustrate? a) threat of new entrants b)competitors c) economic factors d) customers d) regulators

Happy foods and general grains both produce similar puffed rice breakfast cereals. for both companies, thecost of producing a box of cereal is 45 cents, and it is not possible for either company to lower their productioncosts any further. how can one company achieve a competitive advantage over the other?

Match the terms with their correct definition. terms: 1. accounts receivable 2. other receivables 3 debtor 4. notes receivable 5. maturity date 6. creditor definitions: a. the party to a credit transaction who takes on an obligation/payable. b. the party who receives a receivable and will collect cash in the future. c. a written promise to pay a specified amount of money at a particular future date. d. the date when the note receivable is due. e. a miscellaneous category that includes any other type of receivable where there is a right to receive cash in the future. f. the right to receive cash in the future from customers for goods sold or for services performed.