A monopolistically competitive firm has the following short-run inverse demand, marginal revenue, and cost schedules for a particular product:

P = $45 – $0.2Q

MR = $45 – $0.4Q

TC = $500 + $5Q

MC = $5

a) What quantity would maximize profits for this firm? (Hint: Recall that profit maximizing is where MR = MC)

b) At what price should this firm sell its product in order to maximize profits or minimize losses?

c)  What would be the amount of the firm’s total revenue at the quantity and price identified in parts “a” and “b” above?

d) What would be the amount of the firm’s profit (if positive number) or loss (if negative number) at the quantity and price identified in parts “a”, “b” and “c” above?

 

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Initial Situation 

Hospitable co provides the following sales for the next 4 months

                           April May June  July

Sales unit   500      580   540    620

The company wants to end each month with ending finished goods inventory equal to 25% of next months sales. Finished goods inventory on April 1 is 190 units . Assume July’s budgeted production is 540 units. Preapare production budget for the month’s of April, may and june

         for this assignment please explain in detail the initial   situation the requirements then provide complete solution to the questions   explained on calculations and provide four scholarly references and text book   as reference for the data  and report should be  4-5 pages . 

Solution : is attached in the excel sheet 

• PA2Guide1.xlsx

 

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Complete the following assignment for each intersession week.

Many companies and placement agencies require candidates to have knowledge about Excel as part of their recruitment process. Knowledge of Excel is useful in several fields in various industries, especially data analysis. Read the assigned chapter for the week. Come up with a use case for the concepts covered using real-world data for a business or organization.

In the discussion forum, post a brief explanation of your data, the business or organization, and the use case in the appropriate forum of the message board. You cannot use the same business or dataset as one of your peers. If you are uncertain of the data or organization to use for this assignment, use the discussion forum to brainstorm with your peers.

Once you have chosen a data set and organization, create an Excel file in which you apply functions to demonstrate the use case. On a separate sheet in the Excel file, write a brief overview and summary in which you:

• Provide an overview of your data, business/organization, and use case
• Analyze the data and give reasoning of why you think it is useful to the business or organization.
• Articulate what Excel functions you have used and apply it to the dataset to demonstrate it.

Submit your complete Excel file here. Replies and responses to the discussion forum are not a graded component of these assignments, but you are expected to respond to your peers and participate in any brainstorming.

Assignments should be using Histograms and Pareto Charts. Please do not use the data used in sample file. It is just for reference on how to data should be presented. Charts should be provided additional to the data and explain breifly about the functions used

• JNJdataanalysis.xlsx

 

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“Integrity vs. Availability”  Please respond to the following:

• In the global enterprise, firms are insistent that their accounting information systems (AIS) and other key systems are available 100% of the time, and that these systems are the highest in integrity. Evaluate how a firm manages the balance of high availability with high integrity in these days of tight budgets and additional oversight from regulators.
• As a student taking online classes or relying on online resources such as libraries and tech support, evaluate the benefits of the school providing you with 24 / 7 access to these resources in relation to the costs incurred by the school itself.

 

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Question 1 10 points

1 Calculating Cost of Equity: The Dybvig Corporation’s common stock has a beta of 1.21. If the risk- free rate is 3.5 percent and the expected return on the market is 11 percent, what is Dybvig’s cost of equity capital?

Question 2 -10 points

Calculating Cost of Debt: Shanken Corp. issued a 30-year, 6.2 percent semi-annual bond 7 years ago. The bond currently sells for 108 percent of its face value. The company’s tax rate is 35 percent

(a.) What is the pretax cost of debt?

(b). What is the aftertax cost of debt?

(c) Which is more relevant, the pre-tax or the after-tax cost of debt? Why?

Question 3 – 15 points

Calculating WACC Mullineaux Corporation has a target capital structure of 70 percent common stock and 30 percent debt. Its cost of equity is 13 percent, and the cost of debt is 6 percent. The relevant tax rate is 35 percent. What is Mullineaux’s WACC?

Question 4 – 65 points

Kellogg’s wants to expand its cereal business by acquiring Major foods company. Kellogg’s currently has debt outstanding with a market value of $150 million and a YTM of 7 percent. The company’s market capitalization is $390 million, and the required return on equity is 12 percent. Major foods has debt outstanding with a market value of $32 million. The EBIT for Major Foods is projected to be $14 million. EBIT is expected to grow at 11 percent per year for the next five years before slowing to 2 % in perpetuity. Net working capital, capital spending, and depreciation as a percentage of EBIT are expected to be 10 percent, 15 percent, and 9 percent, respectively. Major Foods has 2 million shares outstanding, and the tax rate for both companies is 40 percent.

(a).  What is the maximum share price do you think Kellogg’s should to pay for Major foods stock.

(b.) Would you recommend that Kellogg’s purchase Major foods? Why?

 

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