Competitive position in the industry

Frugala is when sylvestor puts $2,000 into 10-year state bonds and $3,000 into 5-year aaa-rated bonds in steady hand hardware, inc. he buys the four state bonds at a 5 percent interest rate and the three steady hand bonds at a 6.5 percent rate. sylvestor also buys $1,500 worth of blue chip stocks, and $800 worth of stock in a promising new sportswear company that reinvests its earnings in new growth. 1. (a) what is the maturity for each of the bond groups sylvestor buys? (b) the coupon rate? (c) the par value?

Caleb construction (cc) incurs supervisor salaries expense in the construction of homes. if cc manufactures 100 homes in a year, fixed supervisor salaries will be $400,000. with the current construction supervisors, cc's productive capacity is 150 homes in a year. however, if cc is contracts to build more than 150 homes per year, it will need to hire additional supervisors, which are hired as full-time rather than temporary employees. cc's productive capacity would then become 200 homes per year, and salaries expense would increase to $470,000. how would cc’s salaries expense be properly classified? fixed variable mixed stepped curvilinear

The manager of the quick stop corner convenience store (which never closes) sells four cases of stein beer each day. order costs are $8.00 per order, and stein beer costs $.80 per six-pack (each case of stein beer contains four six-packs). orders arrive three days from the time they are placed. daily holding costs are equal to 5 percent of the cost of the beer. if he were to order 16 cases of stein beer at a time, what would be the average inventory level? a. 0.25 days b. 3 days c. 1 day d. 4 days e. 20 days