A cash budget, by quarters, is given below for a retail company (000 omitted). The company requires a minimum cash balance of at least $7,000 to start each quarter. Fill in the missing amounts. Cash balance, beginning $6
Add collections from customers 112 401
Total cash available 85
Less disbursements:
Purchase of inventory 51 61 35
Selling and administrative expenses 45 30 117
Equipment purchases 14 9 26 59
Dividends 2 2 2 2
Total disbursements 117
Excess (deficiency) of cash
available over disbursements (4) 8
Financing:
Borrowings 15
Repayments (including interest) * (26)
Total financing
Cash balance, ending

At the end of the week, carla receives her paycheck and goes directly to the bank after work to make a deposit into her savings account. the bank keeps the required reserve and then loans out the remaining balance to a qualified borrower named malik as a portion of his small business loan. malik uses the loan to buy a tractor for his construction business and makes small monthly payments to the bank to payback the principal balance plus interest on the loan. the bank profits from a portion of the interest payment received and also passes some of the interest back to carla in the form of an interest payment to her savings account. in this example, the bank is acting

John is a 45-year-old manager who enjoys playing basketball in his spare time with his teenage sons and their friends. at work he finds that he is better able to solve problems that come up because of his many years of experience, but while on the court, he finds he is not as good keeping track of the ball while worrying about the other players. john's experience is:

An outside manufacturer has offered to produce 60,000 daks and ship them directly to andretti's customers. if andretti company accepts this offer, the facilities that it uses to produce daks would be idle; however, fixed manufacturing overhead costs would be reduced by 75%. because the outside manufacturer would pay for all shipping costs, the variable selling expenses would be only two-thirds of their present amount. what is andretti's avoidable cost per unit that it should compare to the price quoted by the outside manufacturer?