A company with $500,000 in operating assets is considering the purchase of a machine that costs $60,000 and which is expected to reduce operating costs by $15,000 each year. These reductions in cost occur evenly throughout the year. The payback period for this machine in years is closest to (Ignore income taxes.): A) 0.25 years
B) 8.3 years
C) 4 years
D) 33.3 years

In the supply-and-demand schedule shown above, at the lowest price of $50, producers supply music players and consumers demand music players.

Beswick company your team is allocated a project involving a major client, the beswick company. although the organization has many clients, this client, and project, is the largest source of revenue and affects the work of several other teams in the organization. the project requires continuous involvement with the client, so any problems with the client are immediately felt by others in the organization. jamie, a member of your team, is the only person in the company with whom this client is willing to deal. it can be said that jamie has:

The assumptions of the production order quantity model are met in a situation where annual demand is 3650 units, setup cost is $50, holding cost is $12 per unit per year, the daily demand rate is 10 and the daily production rate is 100. the production order quantity for this problem is approximately: