Dollar shave club delivers razor blades to the customer's home for as little as $4 a month. a package of gillette blades at a store cost $20 to 30. after just 3 years in business, dollar shave club has 2 million members and projected revenue of over $140 million. proctor and gamble, maker of gillette, once had 70% of the market. dsc is forcing p& g to make some decisions.

Consider each of the following cases: case accounting break-even unit price unit variable cost fixed costs depreciation 1 127,400 $ 38 $ 25 $ 711,000 ? 2 124,000 ? 41 2,500,000 $ 900,000 3 5,753 117 ? 171,000 100,000 required: (a) find the depreciation for case 1. (do not round your intermediate calculations.) (b) find the unit price for case 2. (do not round your intermediate calculations.) (c) find the unit variable cost for case 3. (do not round your intermediate calculations.)

Fred smithers, a recent college graduate decided to open his own portable juice bar, smithers smoothies, to wheel around newport beach. you, a trusted friend of fred, are a business major that has also recently graduated and agreed to handle the books for a while to get some practical experience and have a favor that you can ask of fred in the future. given the following five transactions concerning the new venture, prepare the necessary journal entries for the transactions, post the journal entries to appropriate t accounts and prepare a trial balance as of the end of the month in order to answer to the necessary may 2: fred invests $12,000 of his own money to start the new company. this money was obtained from a part-time job working at a legal firm while he was in school. may 3: fred spent $5,100 cash to purchase a refrigerated trailer that he can pull behind his car and set up at the beach. under your advice, fred agrees to place the new asset under an account called "equipment." may 6: fred bought $640 of supplies on account from the flav-o-rite confectioners company. because they will last longer than a single accounting period fred agrees to record them as, "supplies" as per your suggestion. may 13: fred sat on the beach for six hours without a single sale and was feeling very down. right before he left, however, a plumber escorting his family reunion along the beach stopped by his stand and bought $800 worth of smoothies for the entire family. under your advice, fred agrees to call this cash revenue, "sales." may 15: excited about his new venture, fred withdraws $350 from the company to take his girlfriend out to dinner. what would be the balance in the cash account at the end of the period following the posting of all the transactions?

Lillypad toys is a manufacturer of educational toys for children. six months ago, the company's research and development division came up with an idea for a unique touchscreen device that can be used to introduce children to a number of foreign languages. three months ago, the company produced a working prototype, and last month the company successfully launched its new device on the commercial market. what should lillypad's managers prepare for next? a. increased competition from imitators b. a prolonged period of uncontested success c. a sharp decline in demand for the product d. a difficult struggle to move from invention to innovation