Preston Industries, Inc. currently manufactures part QX100, which is used in several products produced by the company. Monthly production costs for 10,000 units of QX100 are as follows: Direct materials$82,000 Direct labor$13,000 Variable overhead costs$40,000 Fixed overhead costs$44,000 Total manufacturing costs$179,000 Accounting has estimated that 20% of the fixed overhead costs currently assigned to QX100 would not be needed if the company chose to purchase the part from an outside supplier. Preston currently has the option of purchasing the part from an outside supplier at $16.00 per unit. If the company accepts the offer from the outside supplier, the monthly avoidable costs (that is, costs that would no longer be incurred) would be:

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Onsider the following subscription behavior information from genie, a web site that provides tools for constructing a family tree (ancestor search). subscriptions cost $9.99 per month, but you are charged for the entire year at the time of purchase. there is a one-year minimum term when you sign up for the service. once purchased, subscriptions are set to renew automatically unless the subscriber cancels them. when a membership renews, it renews for a one-year term and again you are charged for the entire year. there are no variable costs associated with providing this service to an individual customer, but genie does engage in customer relationship activities that they believe will increase customer retention. these customer relationship activities cost genie about $10 per year per customer. based on a sample of 1000 customers that joined genie five years ago, near the time when the company was founded, they were able to determine how many of those customers remained subscribers in the second year, third year etc. based on this information, genie calculated the average annual retention rate to be 20%. genie uses an annual discount rate of 8%. a. last year, genie spent $10,000 placing advertisements on google. genie management believes that these advertisements were responsible for about 300 new subscribers. would you recommend to genie management that they purchase more google ads? b. suppose a newly-introduced loyalty program increases the number of customers that remained to 30%. does this new data change your answer to 9.a? c. do you have any hesitations or concerns about making recommendations to management based on your above estimate of customer lifetime value?

If a product goes up in price, and the demand for it drops, that product's demand is a. elastic b. inelastic c. stable d. fixed select the best answer from the choices provided