Asupplier to toyota stamps out parts using a press. changing a part type requires the supplier to change the die on the press. this changeover currently takes four hours. the supplier estimates that each hour spent on the changeover costs $250. demand for parts is 1,000 per month. each part costs the supplier $100, and the supplier incurs an annual holding cost of 25%.a) determine the optimal production batch size for the supplier. b) toyota would like the supplier to reduce their batch size by a factor of four; that is, if the supplier currently produces q parts per batch, toyota would like them to produce q/4 parts per batch. what should the supplier do in order to achieve this result?

Your parents have accumulated a $170,000 nest egg. they have been planning to use this money to pay college costs to be incurred by you and your sister, courtney. however, courtney has decided to forgo college and start a nail salon. your parents are giving courtney $20,000 to her get started, and they have decided to take year-end vacations costing $8,000 per year for the next four years. use 8 percent as the appropriate interest rate throughout this problem. use appendix a and appendix d for an approximate answer, but calculate your final answer using the formula and financial calculator methods. a. how much money will your parents have at the end of four years to you with graduate school, which you will start then?

Wallis company manufactures only one product and uses a standard cost system. the company uses a predetermined plantwide overhead rate that relies on direct labor-hours as the allocation base. all of the company's manufacturing overhead costs are fixed—it does not incur any variable manufacturing overhead costs. the predetermined overhead rate is based on a cost formula that estimated $2,886,000 of fixed manufacturing overhead for an estimated allocation base of 288,600 direct labor-hours. wallis does not maintain any beginning or ending work in process inventory.

Abond purchased for $950 was sold for $980 after one year. the interest received during the year is $25. the bond's yield is: