Misty cumbie worked as a waitress at the vita café in portland, oregon. the café was owned and operated by woody woo, inc. woody woo paid its servers an hourly wage that was higher than the state's minimum wage (which was higher than the federal minimum wage), but the servers were required to contribute their tips to a "tip pool." approximately one-third of the tip-pool funds went to the servers, and the rest was distributed to kitchen staff members, who otherwise are not considered tipped employees. misty sued the employer and alleged that the tip-pooling arrangement violated the minimum wage provisions of the fair labor standards act. does it? explain. the fair labor standards act is involved in this case because it involved questions about the .

Aeuropean aircraft producer has spent 15 years in developing a new aircraft that would potential threaten long-lasting boeing's dominance (monopoly) in the same class of aircrafts. the new european aircraft gets high marks on all performance measures except noise. because of the noise, the european producers management is concerned that the us government may impose restrictions which would forbid their aircraft to land in some of the american airports. without restrictions the estimated (present discounted) profit would be 125 million usd. with the restrictions the profit would only be 25 million usd. the chances of both outcomes are estimated to be 50-50. management must decide now whether to the cost of redesign program problem and a 60% chance it will fail. should the european aircraft producer start the noise redesign program if they do not have any redesign parts of the aircraft to solve the noise problem. is 25 million usd. there is a 40% chance that redesign will solve the noise additional information than mentioned above? draw the decision tree, indicate probabilities and outcomes of the events * imagine that the company could find out in advance the outcome of the u.s. government's e find the expected value of perfect information about the u.s. government's decision. decision. draw a new decision tree, indicate probabilities and outcomes of the events.

Wilmington company has two manufacturing departments--assembly and fabrication. it considers all of its manufacturing overhead costs to be fixed costs. the first set of data that is shown below is based on estimates from the beginning of the year. the second set of data relates to one particular job completed during the year--job bravo. estimated data assembly fabrication total manufacturing overhead costs $ 6,720,000 $ 7,280,000 $ 14,000,000 direct labor-hours 140,000 84,000 224,000 machine-hours 56,000 280,000 336,000 job bravo assembly fabrication total direct labor-hours 29 21 50 machine-hours 21 24 45 required: 1. if wilmington used a plantwide predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor-hours, how much manufacturing overhead would be applied to job bravo

Which of the following are useful for conducting market research? a. focus groups b. cost-benefit analysis c. budget spreadsheets d. reference books