Top managers of Texas Flooring are alarmed by their operating losses. They are considering dropping the laminate flooring product line. Company accountants have prepared the following analysis to help make this decision: Total Blue-Ray Discs DVD Discs
Sales Revenue $432,000 $305,000 $127,000
Variable Costs $246,000 $150,000 $96,000
Contribution Margin $186,000 $155,000 $31,000
Fixed Costs:
Manufacturing $128,000 $71,000 $57,000
Selling and Administrative $67,000 $52,000 $15,000
Total Fixed Costs $195,000 $123,000 $72,000
Operating Income (loss) $(9000) $32,000 $(41,000)

Total fixed costs will not change if the company stops selling DVDs.

Required:
a. Prepare a differential analysis to show whether Movie Street should drop the DVD product line.
b. Will dropping DVDs add $41,000 to the operating income? Explain.

Dominic is the founder of an innovative "impromptu catering" business that provides elegant, healthy party food and decorations on less than 24 hours' notice. the company has grown by over 150 percent in the past year. dominic credits some of the company's success to studying the strategies of prominent social entrepreneurs, such as wikipedia's jimmy wales. what can dominic do to exemplify the social entrepreneurship model?

With the slowdown of business, how can starbucks ensure that the importance of leadership development does not get overlooked?

Suppose that fixed costs for a firm in the automobile industry (start-up costs of factories, capital equipment, and so on) are $5 billion and that variable costs are equal to $17,000 per finished automobile. because more firms increase competition in the market, the market price falls as more firms enter an automobile market, or specifically, , where n represents the number of firms in a market. assume that the initial size of the u.s. and the european automobile markets are 300 million and 533 million people, respectively.a. calculate the equilibrium number of firms in the u.s. and european automobile markets without trade.b. what is the equilibrium price of automobiles in the united states and europe if the automobile industry is closed to foreign trade? c. now suppose that the united states decides on free trade in automobiles with europe. the trade agreement with the europeans adds 533 million consumers to the automobile market, in addition to the 300 million in the united states. how many automobile firms will there be in the united states and europe combined? what will be the new equilibrium price of automobiles? d. why are prices in the united states different in (c) and (b)? are consumers better off with free trade? in what ways?