Suppose you are the owner of a picture frame store and you wish to calculate how many pictures you must sell to cover your fixed and variable costs at a given price. demand for pictures is strong, so the average price customers are willing to pay for each picture frame is $120. also, suppose your fixed costs (fc) total $32,000 (real estate taxes, interest on a bank loan, etc.) and unit variable cost (uvc) for a picture frame is $40 (labor, glass, frame, and matting). what is the quantity of picture frames you will need to sell to break-even?

Ryan terlecki organized a new internet company, capuniverse, inc. the company specializes in baseball-type caps with logos printed on them. ryan, who is never without a cap, believes that his target market is college and high school students. you have been hired to record the transactions occurring in the first two weeks of operations. issued 2,900 shares of $0.01 par value common stock to investors for cash at $29 per share. borrowed $68,000 from the bank to provide additional funding to begin operations; the note is due in two years. paid $1,000 for the current month's rent of a warehouse and another $1,000 for next month's rent. paid $1,440 for a one-year fire insurance policy on the warehouse (recorded as a prepaid expense). purchased furniture and fixtures for the warehouse for $16,000, paying $3,200 cash and the rest on account. the amount is due within 30 days. purchased for $2,800 cash the university of pennsylvania, notre dame, the university of texas at austin, and michigan state university baseball caps as inventory to sell online. placed advertisements on google for a total of $340 cash. sold caps totaling $1,900, half of which was charged on account. the cost of the caps sold was $1,100. (hint: make two entries.) made full payment for the furniture and fixtures purchased on account in (e). received $280 from a customer on account.

Newton industries is considering a project and has developed the following estimates: unit sales = 4,800, price per unit = $67, variable cost per unit = $42, annual fixed costs = $11,900. the depreciation is $14,700 a year and the tax rate is 34 percent. what effect would an increase of $1 in the selling price have on the operating cash flow?

Miami incorporated estimates that its retained earnings break point (bpre) is $21 million, and its wacc is 13.40 percent if common equity comes from retained earnings. however, if the company issues new stock to raise new common equity, it estimates that its wacc will rise to 13.88 percent. the company is considering the following investment projects: project size irr a $4 million 14.00% b 5 million 15.10 c 4 million 16.20 d 6 million 14.20 e 1 million 13.42 f 6 million 13.75 what is the firm's optimal capital budget?