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A company is considering investing $150,000 in a project which will generate the following contributions during the first three years.

Tax depreciation allowance is 25% each year of the reducing balance.

The taxation rate is 30% of taxable profits and tax is payable in the year after that in which it arises.

To the nearest $10, what is the forecast total project cash flow in year 3?

A manager must decide which one of three projects should be implemented. For each project the possible outcomes and their associated probabilities can be estimated reliably. The manager has decided to make the decision based solely on which project has the highest expected value of profit.

Which of the following statements are correct?

Select ALL that apply.

S is considering launching a new product.

The variable costs of manufacturing the product will be $6 per unit.

The product must be manufactured in batches of 2,000 units. The machine set up cost for each batch will be $4,000.

Maximum capacity will be 8,000 units each year.

Market research has shown that the unit selling price will affect the demand for the product as follows.

Which unit selling price will maximise annual profit?

Endure Co. makes 1,000 units ofX and 2,000 units of Y.

Costs for X: Material $4, labour $8, direct overhead $2, fixed cost $4.

Costs for Y: Material $9, labour $9, direct overhead $4, fixed cost $6.

Selling price for X and Y are S19 and $25 respectively. Another company can sell ready made product X and product Y's to Endure Co, this company sells X at $12 and Y at $21. Advise Endure Co. on what would be the

most cost effective way to source products X and Y.

One aspect of life cycle costing is the recognition of the fact that during the design or development stage a large proportion of many products' life cycle costs are:

The net present value of the cost of operating a machine for the next 4 years is £6,340. The discount rate used is 10%.

What is the equivalent annual cost and the present value of the cost in perpetuity of operating this machine?

Use discount factors to 3 decimal places.

A manufacturing company sells a large range of products. Forecast data for the next period for one of these products are as follows.

After manufacture, each complete batch must be stored in a local warehouse until it is subsequently sent to the company's main national warehouse. The company does not own a local warehouse. A local warehouse with a maximum capacity of 500 units could be rented for $2,450 for the next period.

Alternatively a larger local warehouse with a maximum capacity of 700 units could be rented for $3,430 for the next period.The company will not begin the manufacture of any new batch until the previous batch has been sent to its main national warehouse.

What would be the change in the total cost of set up and storage if the batch size was changed to 600 units?

Give your answer to the nearest whole $.

A large supermarket is applying direct product profitability analysis to establish the profit earned by each of the products it sells.

Data for product P are as follows.

The shelf is stacked each time that all units are sold and there are no units of product P left unsold at the end of each day.

What is the direct product profit per unit of product P?

Give your answer to the nearest $0.01.

A learning curve applies to the manufacture of the first 256 units of a product.

During the manufacture of the first 255 units, the time taken to produce each successive unit is expected to:

SkillWeave Industries are focused on managing the risk of selling their cars to the region due to economic turmoil, and have now begun using funds from sales in the region to fund supplier purchases from that region to

reduce the risk from the volatile currency. However, SkillWeave want to go a step further and make the risk even less sizeable.

Which of the following is a method by which SkillWeave can operate in the market and transfer the risk of exchange rate exposure to another party?