The paper screening for each idea takes 2 hours of a staff member’s time. after that, there is a stage of designing and producing a prototype. a designer spends 4 hour designing the game in a computer-aided-design (cad) package. the actual creation of the mock-up is outsourced to one of many suppliers with essentially limitless capacity. it takes 4 days to get the prototype programmed, and multiple prototypes can be created simultaneously. a staff member of the testing team needs 1 days to test an idea. running the focus group takes 2 hours of a staff member’s time per idea, and only one game is tested in each focus group. finally, the management team meets for 3 hours per idea to decide if the game should go into production. available working hours for each staff member are 8 hours per day, 5 days a week. the current staffing plan is as follows: a. paper screening: 3 staff members. b. design and production: 4 staff members. c. testing: 6 staff members. d. focus group: 1 staff member. e. finally decision: 1 management team. what is the implied utilization of testing team in percentage?

Blue computers, a major pc manufacturer in the united states, currently has plants in kentucky and pennsylvania. the kentucky plant has a capacity of 1 million units a year and the pennsylvania plant has a capacity of 1.5 million units a year. the firm divides the united states into five markets: northeast, southeast, midwest, south, and west. each pc sells for $1,000. the firm anticipates a 50 perc~nt growth in demand (in each region) this year (after which demand will stabilize) and wants to build a plant with a capacity of 1.5 million units per year to accommodate the growth. potential sites being considered are in north carolina and california. currently the firm pays federal, state, and local taxes on the income from each plant. federal taxes are 20 percent of income, and all state and local taxes are 7 percent of income in each state. north carolina has offered to reduce taxes for the next 10 years from 7 percent to 2 percent. blue computers would like to take the tax break into consideration when planning its network. consider income over the next 10 years in your analysis. assume that all costs remain unchanged over the 10 years. use a discount factor of 0.1 for your analysis. annual fixed costs, production and shipping costs per unit, and current regional demand (before the 50 percent growth) are shown in table 5-13. (a) if blue computers sets an objective of minimizing total fixed and variable costs, where should they build the new plant? how should the network be structured? (b) if blue computers sets an objective of maximizing after-tax profits, where should they build the new plant? how should the network be structured? variable production and shipping cost ($/unit) annual fixed cost northeast southeast midwest south west (million$) kentucky 185 180 175 175 200 150 pennsylvania 170 190 180 200 220 200 n. carolina 180 180 185 185 215 150 california 220 220 195 195 175 150 demand ('000 units/month) 700 400 400 300 600

Acompany has two products: standard and deluxe. the company expects to produce 36,375 standard units and 62,240 deluxe units. it uses activity-based costing and has prepared the following analysis showing budgeted cost and cost driver activity for each of its three activity cost pools.budgeted activity of cost driver activity cost pool budgeted cost standard deluxe activity 1 $ 93,000 2,500 5,250 activity 2 $ 92,000 4,500 5,500 activity 3 $ 87,000 3,000 2,800 what is the overhead cost per unit for the standard units? what is the overhead cost per unit for the deluxe units? (round activity rate and cost per unit answers to 2 decimal places.)activity expected costs expected activity driver activity rate1 93,000 2 92,000 3 87,000 standard activity activity driver activity rate allocated costs1 2 3

Suppose a starbucks tall latte cost $4.00 in the united states, 5.00 euros in the euro area and $2.50 australian dollars in australia. nominal exchange rates are .80 euros per dollar and 1.4 australian dollars per u.s. dollar. where does purchasing power parity hold? a. both the euro area and australia. b. neither the euro area or australia. c. the euro area but not australia. d. australia but not the euro area.