Dyson successfully sells its fans and heaters for $150 to $400, whereas most conventional fans sell for around $25. Explain the value it creates and how this affects the price it can charge.
Because of these, Dyson is able to charge a higher price fofr its products.
Dyson successfully sells its fans and heaters for $150 to $400, whereas most conventional fans sell...
Elmwood, Inc. currently sells 13,100 units of its product per year for $111 each. Variable costs total $86 per unit. Elmwood’s manager believes that if a new machine is leased for $232,525 per year, modifications can be made to the product that will increase its retail value. These modifications will increase variable costs by $14.50 per unit, but Elmwood is hoping to sell the modified units for $141 each. a-1. Should Elmwood modify the units or sell them as is?...
Cane Company manufactures two products called Alpha and Beta that sell for $150 and $105, respectively. Each product uses only one type of raw material that costs $5 per pound. The company has the capacity to annually produce 107,000 units of each product. Its unit costs for each product at this level of activity are given below:AlphaBeta Direct materials$30$10 Direct labor2520 Variable manufacturing overhead1210 Traceable fixed manufacturing overhead2123 Variable selling expenses1713 Common fixed expenses2015 Total cost per unit$125$91The company considers its traceable fixed manufacturing overhead to be...
can you explain why its right 1. A rational seller will sell another unit of output if the cost of making another unit is less than (or to) the revenue gained from selling another unit 2. Your neighbor has hired you to take care his dog, it takes one hour to do the work. You work 8 hours a day and make 10 dollars an hour, how much are you going to . charge? 3. Which of the following best...
Part 1: Break-Even Analysis (Profit Model) Kramerica Industries has successfully completed production of its "tip calculators" and would like to perform a break-even profit model analysis. The combination of equipment purchase cost and other resource and facility fixed costs total 5850.000. Each calculator costs $15 to produce, but will sell for $39. (a) How many calculators does Kramerica need to sell in order to achieve a volume break- even poin/?- (15 points) (b) What is the corresponding revenue break-even poin/?-...
I wonder only both (d) and (e). If you use excel, please show what you do exactly. Please help me. Thanks. ts) Can-Do Canoe sells lightweight portable canoes. Quarterly demand for its most 2. (70 point ar product family over the past 3 years has been as follows. popul 2015 2 2016 2 2017 Year Demand 25 120 40 60 30 140 608035 150 55 90 4 Quarter a) (10 points) Use an exponential smoothing model with smoothing constant a...
While movie fans everywhere would probably recognize the actor who played Wolverine in the X-Men franchise, most are not likely to know he is also in the fair-trade coffee business. In 2011 Hugh Jackman, most famous for his depiction of Wolverine in X-Men, launched Laughing Man Coffee. The Australian actor—a self-acknowledged “coffee snob”—was inspired to get into the coffee business after visiting Ethiopia as an ambassador for World Vision Australia in 2009. Jackman was working with World Vision to film...
Costco launched the warehouse shopping model when it opened its first location in 1976, requiring customers to purchase an annual membership in order to shop at the store.68 The first location was called Price Club and initially sold only to small businesses. More than 40 years later, Costco is one of the nation’s top retailers and the nation’s largest membership warehouse chain. They operate more than 700 warehouses located around the world, with more than 80 million members and over...
Standing in the showroom of a local appliance store, you realise the problem almost immediately. Virtually all of the washers, dryers, refrigerators, freezers and dishwashers are white. It is tough to tell one company’s product from another, and the biggest signs in the place announce the low prices on this versus that model. This is the exact reason that Vortex’s senior management team developed the ‘brand-focused value creation’ strategy: to create innovative, branded solutions that consumers will find appealing, that...
#1 Abraham Marquez runs a family-owned orange grove in Santa Clarita, California. Recently, he's been considering estab i shing a presence at a famer's market; in particular, the Leucadia farmer's market. Before committing his time, energy, and money to setting up a booth, he would like to crunch the numbers and estimate how likely it is that the venture would be a profitable one. The market is held once a week. It's a pretty long trek from Santa Clarita to...
QUESTION 22 In a competitive market the price is $8. A typical firm in the market has ATC - S6, AVC - S5, and MC - $8. How much economic profit is the firm earning in the short run? a. $2 per unit b. Si per unit c. $0 per unit Od.$3 per unit QUESTION 23 Which of the following factors is most likely to shift IBM's total cost and marginal cost curves downward? a. a technological advance resulting in...