Hennig Plastics Equipment Corporation has developed a new injection mold—model XP-30—that has been designed to outperform a competitor’s best-selling injection mold. Model XP-30 has a useful life of 48,000 hours of service and its operating cost is $1.10 per hour. In contrast, the competitor’s product has a useful life of 24,000 hours of service and has operating costs that average $1.80 per hour. The competitor’s injection mold sells for $141,000. Hennig has not yet established a selling price for model XP-30. From a value-based pricing standpoint what is XP-30’s economic value to the customer over its 48,000 hour useful life?

You plan to invest some money in a bank account. which of the following banks provides you with the highest effective rate of interest? hint: perhaps this problem requires some calculations. bank 1; 6.1% with annual compounding. bank 2; 6.0% with monthly compounding. bank 3; 6.0% with annual compounding. bank 4; 6.0% with quarterly compounding. bank 5; 6.0% with daily (365-day) compounding.

The cook corporation has two divisions--east and west. the divisions have the following revenues and expenses: east west sales $ 603,000 $ 506,000 variable costs 231,000 300,000 traceable fixed costs 151,500 192,000 allocated common corporate costs 128,600 156,000 net operating income (loss) $ 91,900 $ (142,000 ) the management of cook is considering the elimination of the west division. if the west division were eliminated, its traceable fixed costs could be avoided. total common corporate costs would be unaffected by this decision. given these data, the elimination of the west division would result in an overall company net operating income (loss)

Happy foods and general grains both produce similar puffed rice breakfast cereals. for both companies, thecost of producing a box of cereal is 45 cents, and it is not possible for either company to lower their productioncosts any further. how can one company achieve a competitive advantage over the other?