During the 1990s, gtr corporation put together a long string of consecutive quarters in which the firm managed to meet or beat the earnings forecasts of wall street stock analysts. some skeptics wondered if gtr managed earnings to meet wall streets expectations, meaning that gtr used accounting gimmicks to conceal the true volatility in its business. how do you think gtrs long run of meeting or beating earnings forecasts affected its cost of capital? if investors learn that gtrs performance was achieved largely through accounting gimmicks, how do you think they would respond?

Mr. drucker uses a periodic review system to manage the inventory in his dry goods store. he likes to maintain 15 sacks of sugar on his shelves based on the annual demand figure of 225 sacks. it costs $2 to place an order for sugar and costs $1 to hold a sack in inventory for a year. mr. drucker checks inventory one day and notes that he is down to 9 sacks; how much should he order?

Each container is cut from the mould once the plastic has cooled and hardened. unit-level 2 patents are obtained for each new type of container mould. facility-level 3. plastic resins are used as the main direct material for the containers. product-level 4. a plant manager oversees the entire manufacturing operation. facility-level 5. the sales force incurs travel expenses to attend various trade shows throughout the country to market the containers. product-level 6. each container product line has a product line manager. product-level 7 the extrusion machine is calibrated for each batch of containers made. facility-level 8. each type of container has its own unique moulds. unit-level 9. routine maintenance is performed on the extrusion machines. facility-level 10. rent is paid for the building that houses the manufacturing processes. classify each activity as either unit-level, batch-level, product-level, or facility-level.

What outputs a and b (in millions of dollars per year) should the two industries generate to satisfy the demand? you may be tempted to say 1,000 and 780, respectively, but things are not quite as simple as that. we have to take into account the interindustry demand as well. let us say that industry a produces electricity. of course, producing almost any product will require electric power. suppose that industry b needs 1o¢ worth of electricity for each $1 of output b produces and that industry a needs 20¢ worth of b's products for each $1 of output a produces?