Arkansas Corporation manufactures liquid chemicals A and B from a joint process. It allocates joint costs on the basis of sales value at split-off. Processing 4,700 gallons of product A and 1,600 gallons of product B to the split-off point costs $5,600. The sales value at split-off is $2.00 per gallon for product A and $23.50 for product B. Product B requires an additional separable process beyond split-off at a cost of $2.20 per gallon before it can be sold. Required:
What is the company’s cost to produce 1,600 gallons of product B?

Perez, inc., applies the equity method for its 25 percent investment in senior, inc. during 2018, perez sold goods with a 40 percent gross profit to senior, which sold all of these goods in 2018. how should perez report the effect of the intra-entity sale on its 2018 income statement?

Mikkelson corporation's stock had a required return of 12.50% last year, when the risk-free rate was 3% and the market risk premium was 4.75%. then an increase in investor risk aversion caused the market risk premium to rise by 2%. the risk-free rate and the firm's beta remain unchanged. what is the company's new required rate of return? (hint: first calculate the beta, then find the required return.) do not round your intermediate calculations.

1. what are the unique operational challenges to delivering fresh meals? 2. why is speed of delivery so important for delivered meals? what variety of options contribute to this performance metric? 3. how could operations management concepts be utilized to improve the performance of freshly? 4. what are your typical product delivery times? what would be required to speed these up? 5. what are your delivery batch quantities? how could you reduce batch size and reduce delivery cost simultaneously using operations management concepts?