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The president of Global Wholesalers would like to offer special sale prices to the firm's best customers under the following terms: 1) The prices will apply only to units purchased in excess of the quantity normally purchased by a customer. 2) The units purchased must be paid for in cash at the time of sale. 3) The total quantity sold under these terms cannot exceed the excess capacity of the firm. 4) The net profit of the firm should not be affected. 5) The prices will be in effect for one week only. Given these conditions, the special sale price should be set equal to the:

A) average variable cost of materials only.
B) average cost of all variable inputs.
C) sensitivity value of the variable costs.
D) marginal cost of materials only.
E) marginal cost of all variable inputs.

F) A) and E)
G) A) and C)

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At the accounting break-even point, Swiss Mountain Gear sells 22,940 ski masks at a price of $19 each. At this level of production, the depreciation is $67,000 and the variable cost per unit is $6. What is the amount of the fixed costs at this production level?

A) $231,220
B) $259,400
C) $161,330
D) $187,660
E) $145,600

F) B) and D)
G) C) and E)

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A project that has a projected IRR of negative 100 percent will also have a(n) :

Sensitivity analysis determines the:

Scenario analysis is defined as the:

You are in charge of a project that has a degree of operating leverage of 1.06. What will happen to the operating cash flows if the number of units you sell increase by 3.7 percent?

Brubaker & Goss has received requests for capital investment funds for next year from each of its five divisions. All requests represent positive net present value projects. All projects are independent. Senior management has decided to allocate the available funds based on the profitability index of each project since the company has insufficient funds to fulfill all of the requests. Management is following a practice known as:

The Creamery is analyzing a project with expected sales of 5,700 units, ±5 percent. The expected variable cost per unit is $168 and the expected fixed costs are $424,000. Cost estimates are considered accurate within a ±3 percent range. The depreciation expense is $156,000. The sales price is estimated at $339 per unit, ±5 percent. The tax rate is 21 percent. The company is conducting a sensitivity analysis with fixed costs of $425,000. What is the OCF given this analysis?

Steve, the sales manager for TL Products, wants to sponsor a one-week "Customer Appreciation Sale" where the firm offers to sell additional units of a product at the lowest price possible without negatively affecting the firm's profits. Which one of the following represents the price that should be charged for the additional units during this sale?

When the operating cash flow of a project is equal to zero, the project is operating at the:

When you assign the lowest anticipated sales price and the highest anticipated costs to a project, you are analyzing the project under the condition known as:

The Motor Works is considering an expansion project with estimated fixed costs of $127,000, depreciation of $16,900, variable costs per unit of $41.08, and an estimated sales price of $79.90 per unit. How many units must the firm sell to break even on a cash basis?

Which one of the following will best reduce the risk of a project by lowering the degree of operating leverage?

A project has base-case earnings before interest and taxes of $36,408, fixed costs of $42,700, a selling price of $24 a unit, and a sales quantity of 22,000 units. All estimates are accurate within ±2 percent. Depreciation is $16,700. What is the base-case variable cost per unit?

Combining scenario analysis with sensitivity analysis can yield a crude form of ________ analysis.

The change in revenue that occurs when one more unit of output is sold is referred to as:

The change in variable costs that occurs when production is increased by one unit is referred to as the:

Shoe Supply has decided to produce a new line of shoes that will have a selling price of $68 and a variable cost of $27 per pair. The company spent $187,000 for a marketing study that determined the company should sell 85,000 pairs of the new shoes each year for three years. The marketing study also determined that the company will lose sales of 24,000 pairs of its high-priced shoes that sell for $129 and have variable costs of $63 a pair. The company will also increase sales of its inexpensive shoes by 19,000 pairs. The inexpensive shoes sell for $39 and have variable costs of $15 per pair. The fixed costs each year will be $1.42 million. The company has also spent $1.29 million on research and development for the new shoes. The initial fixed asset requirement is $4.2 million and will be depreciated on a straight-line basis over the life of the project. The new shoes will also require an increase in net working capital of $447,000 that will be returned at the end of the project. Sales and cost projections have a ±2 percent range. The tax rate is 21 percent, and the cost of capital is 12 percent. What is the NPV for the new line of shoes assuming the base-case scenario?

The base case values used in scenario analysis are the values considered to be the most:

The degree of operating leverage is equal to: