Black Horse Corporation manufactures a product with the following full unit costs at a volume of 2000 units:

Direct Materials $100

Direct Labor $40

Manufacturing Overhead (30% variable) $75

Selling expenses (50% variable) $25

Administrative expenses (10% variable) $40

Total Per unit $280

A company recently approached Black Horse’s management with an offer to purchase 225 units for $275 each. Black horse currently sells the product to dealers for $400 each. Black horse’s capacity is sufficient to produce the extra 225 units. No selling expenses would be incurred on the special order.

If Black Horse's management accepts the offer, profits will: Select one:

A. Increase by $33,40.
B. Decrease by $24,412.50
C. Decrease by $60,000
D. Increase by $24,412.50

(a) what was the opportunity cost of non-gm food for many buyers before 2008? (b) why did they prefer the alternative? (c) what was the opportunity cost in 2008? (d) why did it change?

Horace society is planning its annual western fair raceway gala. the gala committee has assembled the following expected costs for the event: dinner (per person) $10 gaming token and program (per person) $2 prize payouts $4,300 tickets and advertising $800 private box suite rental $1,700 lottery licenses $200 the committee members would like to charge $40 per person for the evening’s activities.required: 1. what is the break-even point for the dinner-dance (in terms of the number of persons who must attend)? 2. assume that last year only 200 persons attended the dinner-dance. if the same number attend this year, what price per ticket must be charged in order to break even? 3. refer to the original data ($40 ticket price per person). prepare a cvp graph for the dinner- dance from zero tickets up to 600 tickets sold.

The management of a supermarket wants to adopt a new promotional policy of giving a free gift to every customer who spends > a certain amount per visit at this supermarket. the expectation of the management is that after this promotional policy is advertised, the expenditures for all customers at this supermarket will be normally distributed with a mean of $95 and a standard deviation of $20. if the management wants to give free gifts to at most 10% of the customers, what should the amount be above which a customer would receive a free gift?