Hau Lee Furniture, Inc., spends 55% of its sales dollars in the supply chain and finds its current profit of $28 comma 000 inadequate. The bank is insisting on an improved profit picture prior to approval of a loan for some new equipment. Hau would like to improve the profit line to $33 comma 000 so he can obtain the bank's approval for the loan. Current Situation Sales $140 comma 000 Cost of material $77 comma 000 (55%) Production costs $28 comma 000 (20%) Fixed cost $7 comma 000 (5%) Profit $28 comma 000 (20%) a) What percentage improvement is needed in the supply chain strategy for profit to improve to $33 comma 000? What is the cost of material with a $33 comma 000 profit? A decrease of nothing% in material (supply-chain) costs is required to yield a profit of $33 comma 000, for a new material cost of $ nothing. (Enter your response for the percentage decrease to one decimal place and enter your response for the new material cost as a whole number.) Enter your answer in the edit fields and then click Check Answer.

Aconsumer values a house at $525,000 and a producer values the same house at $485,000. if the transaction is completed at $510,000, what level of tax rate will result in unconsummated transaction?

Fanning company is considering the addition of a new product to its cosmetics line. the company has three distinctly different options: a skin cream, a bath oil, or a hair coloring gel. relevant information and budgeted annual income statements for each of the products follow. skin cream bath oil color gel budgeted sales in units (a) 110,000 190,000 70,000 expected sales price (b) $8 $4 $11 variable costs per unit (c) $2 $2 $7 income statements sales revenue (a × b) $880,000 $760,000 $770,000 variable costs (a × c) (220,000) (380,000) (490,000) contribution margin 660,000 380,000 280,000 fixed costs (432,000) (240,000) (76,000) net income $228,000 $140,000 $204,000 required: (a) determine the margin of safety as a percentage for each product. (b) prepare revised income statements for each product, assuming a 20 percent increase in the budgeted sales volume. (c) for each product, determine the percentage change in net income that results from the 20 percent increase in sales. (d) assuming that management is pessimistic and risk averse, which product should the company add to its cosmetics line? (e) assuming that management is optimistic and risk aggressive, which product should the company add to its cosmetics line?

Profits from using currency options and futures.on july 2, the two-month futures rate of the mexican peso contained a 2 percent discount (unannualized). there was a call option on pesos with an exercise price that was equal to the spot rate. there was also a put option on pesos with an exercise price equal to the spot rate. the premium on each of these options was 3 percent of the spot rate at that time. on september 2, the option expired. go to the oanda.com website (or any site that has foreign exchange rate quotations) and determine the direct quote of the mexican peso. you exercised the option on this date if it was feasible to do so. a. what was your net profit per unit if you had purchased the call option? b. what was your net profit per unit if you had purchased the put option? c. what was your net profit per unit if you had purchased a futures contract on july 2 that had a settlement date of september 2? d. what was your net profit per unit if you sold a futures contract on july 2 that had a settlement date of september 2