Chillicothe meat company produces one of the best sausage products in southern ohio. the company’s controller used the account-classification method to compile the following information. required: 1. classify each cost item as variable, fixed, or semivariable. 2. write a cost formula to express the cost behavior of the firm’s production costs. (use the formula y = a + bx, where y denotes production cost and x denotes quantity of sausage produced.)

Maker-bot corporation has 10,000 shares of 10%, $90 par value, cumulative preferred stock outstanding since its inception. no dividends were declared in the first two years. if the company pays $400,000 of dividends in the third year, how much will common stockholders receive?

Anew 2-lane road is needed in a part of town that is growing. at some point the road will need 4 lanes to handle the anticipated traffic. if the city's optimistic estimate of growth is used, the expansion will be needed in 4 years and has a probability of happening of 40%. for the most likely and pessimistic estimates, the expansion will be needed in 8 and 15 years respectively. the probability of the pessimistic estimate happening is 20%. the expansion will cost $ 4.2 million and the interest rate is 8%. what is the expected pw the expansion will cost?

Atrough in the business cycle occurs when