Hyper Color Company manufactures widgets. The following data is related to sales and production of the widgets for last year. Selling price per unit $ 170 Variable manufacturing costs per unit $ 62 Variable selling and administrative expenses per unit $ 6 Fixed manufacturing overhead (in total) $ 32 comma 000 Fixed selling and administrative expenses (in total) $ 6 comma 000 Units produced during the year 1 comma 600 Units sold during year 1 comma 200 Using variable costing, what is the operating income for last year?

Haley photocopying purchases a paper from an out-of-state vendor. average weekly demand for paper is 150 cartons per week for which haley pays $15 per carton. in bound shipments from the vendor average 1000 cartoons with an average lead time of 3 weeks. haley operates 52 weeks per year; it carries a 4-week supply of inventory as safety stock and no anticipation inventory. the vendor has recently announced that they will be building a faculty near haley photocopying that will reduce lead time to one week. further, they will be able to reduce shipments to 200 cartons. haley believes that they will be able to reduce safety stock to a 1-week supply. what impact will these changes make to haley’s average inventory level and its average aggregated inventory value?