3. sensitivity analysis [lo1] for the company in the previous problem, suppose management is most concerned about the impact of its price estimate on the project’s profitability. how could you address this concern? describe how you would calculate your answer. what values would you use for the other forecast variables?

Answer and Explanation:

in order to address the concern of management for the impact of price forecast, we should perform the sensitivity analysis.

this is done by adjusting one of the variables with the best and worst while maintaining the other variables constant. the variable being adjusted for our analysis is the price estimate.

price per unit in worst-case is computed by:

price per unit in worst-case

= (price per unit in base-case)*(100% + 15%)

then:

price per unit in best-case

= (price per unit in base-case)*(100% - 15%)

below is the values for the following variables in three types of cases:

                           base case        worst case       best case

price                    $1400               $1190                $1610

units                     85000               85000             85000

variable costs      $220                   $220               $220

fixed costs           $3900000         $3900000       $3900000

a) both were commissioned explorers

answer: a. the kind of population living in your neighbourhood.

the census explorer data tool by the us census bureau allows the user to zoom in on any neighbourhood within the united states and find the kind of people residing in that by race and age.  

the tool needs to needs to be used twice – once in order to find what type of people reside in a neighbourhood, and then to see the age groups of the people in the same neighbourhood.