Puget sound divers is a company that provides diving services such as underwater ship repairs to clients in the puget sound area. the company’s planning budget for may appears below: puget sound divers planning budget for the month ended may 31 budgeted diving-hours (q) 400 revenue ($430.00q) $ 172,000 expenses: wages and salaries ($11,300 + $130.00q) 63,300 supplies ($5.00q) 2,000 equipment rental ($2,200 + $22.00q) 11,000 insurance ($4,200) 4,200 miscellaneous ($510 + $1.48q) 1,102 total expense 81,602 net operating income $ 90,398

You are the manager in charge of global operations at bankglobal – a large commercial bank that operates in a number of countries around the world. you must decide whether or not to launch a new advertising campaign in the u.s. market. your accounting department has provided the accompanying statement, which summarizes the financial impact of the advertising campaign on u.s. operations. in addition, you recently received a call from a colleague in charge of foreign operations, and she indicated that her unit would lose $8 million if the u.s. advertising campaign were launched. your goal is to maximize bankglobal’s value. should you launch the new campaign? explain. pre-advertising campaign post-advertising campaign total revenues $18,610,900 $31,980,200 variable cost tv airtime 5,750,350 8,610,400 ad development labor 1,960,580 3,102,450 total variable costs 7,710,930 11,712,850 direct fixed cost depreciation – computer equipment 1,500,000 1,500,000 total direct fixed cost 1,500,000 1,500,000 indirect fixed cost managerial salaries 8,458,100 8,458,100 office supplies 2,003,500 2,003,500 total indirect fixed cost $10,461,600 $10,461,600

Margaret company reported the following information for the current year: net sales $3,000,000 purchases $1,957,000 beginning inventory $245,000 ending inventory $115,000 cost of goods sold 65% of sales industry averages available are: inventory turnover 5.29 gross profit percentage 28% how do the inventory turnover and gross profit percentage for margaret company compare to the industry averages for the same ratios? (round inventory turnover to two decimal places. round gross profit percentage to the nearest percent.)

If the economy were in the contracting phase of the business cycle, how might that affect your ability to find work?