Question 1 – Learning outcome 1 (10 marks) You are a marketing manager for IJ DAC, an insurer operating in the Irish market, which underwrites professional indemnity insurance. It distributes its products through insurance brokers. IJ DAC has a wide range of professional indemnity insurance products for specific professions.
Due to stagnating sales, IJ DAC has decided that it needs to sell professional indemnity insurance through an additional distribution method or channel.
a) Identify, with justification, the most appropriate additional distribution method or channel for IJ DAC.
(4 marks)
b) Recommend two actions that IJ DAC should take to maximise the benefit of the additional distribution method or channel, identified in (a) above.
(6 marks

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Electronics assembly inc. is a contract manufacturer that assembles consumer electronics for a number of companies. currently, the operations manager is assessing the capacity requirements as input into a bid for a job to assemble cell phones for a major global company. the company would assemble three models of cell phones in the same assembly cell. setup time between the phones is negligible. electronics assembly inc. operates two 8-hour shifts for 275 days per year. cell phone demand forecast (phones/year) processing time (minutes/phone) mars 47,000 19.8 saturn 35,000 20.7 neptune 7,500 16.2 a. calculate total capacity required by line. b. determine the total operating time available. c. calculate the total number of assembly cells. (round up your answer to the next whole number.)

Oakmont company has an opportunity to manufacture and sell a new product for a four-year period. the company’s discount rate is 18%. after careful study, oakmont estimated the following costs and revenues for the new product: cost of equipment needed $ 230,000 working capital needed $ 84,000 overhaul of the equipment in year two $ 9,000 salvage value of the equipment in four years $ 12,000 annual revenues and costs: sales revenues $ 400,000 variable expenses $ 195,000 fixed out-of-pocket operating costs $ 85,000 when the project concludes in four years the working capital will be released for investment elsewhere within the company. click here to view exhibit 12b-1 and exhibit 12b-2, to determine the appropriate discount factor(s) using tables.