In order to sell a product at a profit the product must be priced higher than the total of what it costs you to build the unit, plus period expenses, and plus overhead. at the end of last year the broad cost leader digby had an elite product dell. use the inquirer's production analysis to find dell's production cost, (labor+materials). exclude possible inventory carrying costs. assume period expenses and overhead total 1/2 of their production cost. what is the minimum price the product could have been sold for to cover the unit cost, period expenses, and overhead?

Which of the following statements is not correct? the stock of publicly owned companies must generally be registered with and reported to a regulatory agency such as the sec. when stock in a closely held corporation is offered to the public for the first time, the transaction is called "going public, or an ipo," and the market for such stock is called the new issue or ipo market. "going public" establishes a firm's true intrinsic value and ensures that a liquid market will always exist for the firm's shares. if you wanted to know what rate of return stocks have provided in the past, you could examine data on the dow jones industrial index, the s& p 500 index, or the nasdaq index.