Goshford Company produces a single product and has capacity to produce 100,000 units per month. Costs to produce its current sales of 80,000 units follow. The regular selling price of the product is $100 per unit. Management is approached by a new customer who wants to purchase 20,000 units of the product for $75 per unit. If the order is accepted, there will be no additional fixed manufacturing overhead, and no additional fixed selling and administrative expenses. The customer is not in the company’s regular selling territory, so there will be a $5 per unit shipping expense in addition to the regular variable selling and administrative expenses.

The beginning inventory is expected to be 2,000 cases. expected sales are 10,000 cases, and the company wishes to begin the next period with an inventory of 1,000 cases. the number of cases the company must purchase during the month is multiple choice 9,000 cases. 10,000 cases. 11,000 cases. 13,000 cases.

Suppose that hubert, an economist from an am talk radio program, and kate, an economist from a nonprofit organization on the west coast, are arguing over government bailouts. the following dialogue shows an excerpt from their debate: kate: to recent financial crises, the concept of bailouts is a hot topic for debate among everyone these days. hubert: indeed, it’s gotten crazy! a government bailout of severely distressed financial firms is unnecessary because free markets will properly price assets. kate: i don’t know about that. without a bailout of severely distressed financial firms, the economy will experience a deep recession. the disagreement between these economists is most likely due todifferences in scientific judgments . despite their differences, with which proposition are two economists chosen at random most likely to agree? business managers can raise profit more easily by reducing costs than by raising revenue. central banks should focus more on maintaining low unemployment than on maintaining low inflation. employers should not be restricted from outsourcing work to foreign nations

Karen is working on classifying all her company’s products in terms of whether they have strong or weak market share and whether this share is in a slow or growing market. what type of strategic framework is she using?