There are four resources in a medical billing process. The unit load (Tp) of each resource unit to process one flow unit (a medical bill) is given below: Mailroom Clerk 20 min. Data- entry clerk 9 min. Claim processor 8 min. Claim supervisor 11 min. These numbers already include capacity waste factors. There are 1 resource units in the mailroom clerk resource pool, 5 resource units in the data-entry clerk resource pool, 5 resource units in the claim processor resource pool, and 5 resource units in the claim supervisor resource pool. Process utilization is 0.5. (Hint: you do not need utilization in computing capacities.) Required:
a. Compute the hourly eï¬ective capacity of the mailroom clerk resource pool.
b. Compute the hourly eï¬ective capacity of the data entry clerk resource pool.
c. Compute the hourly eï¬ective capacity of the claim processor resource pool.

You are the manager in charge of global operations at bankglobal – a large commercial bank that operates in a number of countries around the world. you must decide whether or not to launch a new advertising campaign in the u.s. market. your accounting department has provided the accompanying statement, which summarizes the financial impact of the advertising campaign on u.s. operations. in addition, you recently received a call from a colleague in charge of foreign operations, and she indicated that her unit would lose $8 million if the u.s. advertising campaign were launched. your goal is to maximize bankglobal’s value. should you launch the new campaign? explain. pre-advertising campaign post-advertising campaign total revenues $18,610,900 $31,980,200 variable cost tv airtime 5,750,350 8,610,400 ad development labor 1,960,580 3,102,450 total variable costs 7,710,930 11,712,850 direct fixed cost depreciation – computer equipment 1,500,000 1,500,000 total direct fixed cost 1,500,000 1,500,000 indirect fixed cost managerial salaries 8,458,100 8,458,100 office supplies 2,003,500 2,003,500 total indirect fixed cost $10,461,600 $10,461,600

Universal containers(us) has an integration with its accounting system that creates tens of thousands of orders inside salesforce in a nightly batch. us wants to add automation that can attempt to match leads and contacts to these orders using the email address field on the insert. us is concerned about the performance of the automation with a large data volume. which tool should uc use to automate this process?

You are evaluating two different silicon wafer milling machines. the techron i costs $285,000, has a three-year life, and has pretax operating costs of $78,000 per year. the techron ii costs $495,000, has a five-year life, and has pretax operating costs of $45,000 per year. for both milling machines, use straight-line depreciation to zero over the project’s life and assume a salvage value of $55,000. if your tax rate is 24 percent and your discount rate is 11 percent, compute the eac for both machines.