Now it’s time to try really thinking like a geologist. Given your answers to the previous three questions, would you recommend that the restaurant owner purchase this pier? Explain why, in a sentence or two, and then describe another issue that you think the owner should investigate before making a decision.

At a student café, there are equal numbers of two types of customers with the following values. the café owner cannot distinguish between the two types of students because many students without early classes arrive early anyway (i.e., she cannot price-discriminate). students with early classes students without early classes coffee 70 60 banana 51 101 the marginal cost of coffee is 10 and the marginal cost of a banana is 40. the café owner is considering three pricing strategies: 1. mixed bundling: price bundle of coffee and a banana for 161, or just a coffee for 70. 2. price separately: offer coffee at 60, price a banana at 101. 3. bundle only: coffee and a banana for 121. do not offer goods separately. assume that if the price of an item or bundle is no more than exactly equal to a student's willingness to pay, then the student will purchase the item or bundle. for simplicity, assume there is just one student with an early class, and one student without an early class. price strategy revenue from pricing strategy cost from pricing strategy profit from pricing strategy 1. mixed bundling $ $ $ 2. price separately $ $ $ 3. bundle only $ $ $ pricing strategy yields the highest profit for the café owner.

An allergy products superstore buys 6000 of their most popular model of air filters each year. the price of the air filters is $18. the cost of ordering and receiving shipments is $12 per order. accounting estimates annual carrying costs are 20% of the price. the supplier lead time is 2 days. the store operates 240 days per year. each order is received from the supplier in a single delivery. there are no quantity discounts. what is the store’s minimum total annual cost of placing orders & carrying inventory?

Cash flows during the first year of operations for the harman-kardon consulting company were as follows: cash collected from customers, $360,000; cash paid for rent, $44,000; cash paid to employees for services rendered during the year, $124,000; cash paid for utilities, $54,000.in addition, you determine that customers owed the company $64,000 at the end of the year and no bad debts were anticipated. also, the company owed the gas and electric company $2,400 at year-end, and the rent payment was for a two-year period.calculate accrual net income for the year.