Hidden Valley Company produces precision components. Hidden Valley has six customers, one accounts for 40 percent of the sales, with the remaining five accounting for the rest of the sales. The five smaller customers purchase components in roughly equal quantities. Orders placed by the smaller customers are about the same size. Data concerning Hidden Valley's customer activity follow:

Large Customer Five Small Customers
Units purchased 200,000 300,000
Orders placed 10 350
Number of sales calls 20 230
Manufacturing cost $600,000 $900,000

Order-filling costs for Hidden Valley Company total $180,000, and sales-force costs are $600,000.

a. Determine the profitability of each of the two classes of customers (large and small). Allocate the order-filling and sales force costs to the customers based on sales volume.
b. Determine the profitability of each of the two classes of customers (large and small). Allocate the order-filling and sales force costs to the customers using an activity-based costing approach.

Explain whether each of the following events increases, decreases, or has no effect on the unemployment rate and the labor-force participation rate.a. after a long search, jon finds a job.b. tyrion, a full-time college student, graduates and is immediately employed.c. after an unsuccessful job search, arya gives up looking and retires.d. daenerys quits her job to become a stay-at-home mom.e. sansa has a birthday, becomes an adult, but has no interest in working.f. jaime has a birthday, becomes an adult, and starts looking for a job.g. cersei dies while enjoying retirement.h. jorah dies working long hours at the office.

An arithmetic progression involves the addition of the same quantity to each number.which might represent the arithmetic growth of agricultural production

The gilbert instrument corporation is considering replacing the wood steamer it currently uses to shape guitar sides. the steamer has 6 years of remaining life. if kept,the steamer will have depreciaiton expenses of $650 for five years and $325 for the sixthyear. its current book value is $3,575, and it can be sold on an internet auction site for$4,150 at this time. if the old steamer is not replaced, it can be sold for $800 at the endof its useful life. gilbert is considering purchasing the side steamer 3000, a higher-end steamer, whichcosts $12,000 and has an estimated useful life of 6 years with an estimated salvage value of$1,500. this steamer falls into the macrs 5-year class, so the applicable depreciationrates are 20.00%, 32.00%, 19.20%, 11.52%, 11.52%, and 5.76%. the new steamer is fasterand allows for an output expansion, so sales would rise by $2,000 per year; the newmachine's much greater efficiency would reduce operating expenses by $1,900 per year.to support the greater sales, the new machine would require that inventories increase by$2,900, but accounts payable would simultaneously increase by $700. gilbert's marginalfederal-plus-state tax rate is 40%, and its wacc is 15%.a. should it replace the old steamer? b. npv of replace = $2,083.51