The athens vegan’s farm owns a greenhouse, which produces strawberries and squash to sell at the local farmer’s market. the greenhouse can grow any combination of the two. they sell the strawberries in batches of 12 quart boxes, and the squash in 10 lbs. bushels. they have 10,000 square feet available for planting this year. each bunch box of strawberries take about 4 square feet and each bushel of squash about 5 square feet. special fertilizer is required for fruit and vegetables: strawberries need 5 pounds and squash 2 pounds. the availability of the fertilizer is limited to 5000 pounds. sales commitments require the company to grow at least 500 boxes of strawberries. profit contributions are $6 per box and $8 per bushel of squash. if the manager’s objective is to maximize profit, formulate the production plan as a linear program and solve on excel solver. what are the profit maximizing quantities and the optimal amount of profit?

Xie company identified the following activities, costs, and activity drivers for 2017. the company manufactures two types of go-karts: deluxe and basic. activity expected costs expected activity handling materials $ 625,000 100,000 parts inspecting product 900,000 1,500 batches processing purchase orders 105,000 700 orders paying suppliers 175,000 500 invoices insuring the factory 300,000 40,000 square feet designing packaging 75,000 2 models required: 1. compute a single plantwide overhead rate, assuming that the company assigns overhead based on 125,000 budgeted direct labor hours. 2. in january 2017, the deluxe model required 2,500 direct labor hours and the basic model required 6,000 direct labor hours. assign overhead costs to each model using the single plantwide overhead rate.

9. tax types: taxes are classified based on whether they are applied directly to income, called direct taxes, or to some other measurable performance characteristic of the firm, called indirect taxes. identify each of the following as a “direct tax,” an “indirect tax,” or something else: a. corporate income tax paid by a japanese subsidiary on its operating income b. royalties paid to saudi arabia for oil extracted and shipped to world markets c. interest received by a u. s. parent on bank deposits held in london d. interest received by a u. s. parent on a loan to a subsidiary in mexico e. principal repayment received by u. s. parent from belgium on a loan to a wholly owned subsidiary in belgium f. excise tax paid on cigarettes manufactured and sold within the united states g. property taxes paid on the corporate headquarters building in seattle h. a direct contribution to the international committee of the red cross for refugee relief i. deferred income tax, shown as a deduction on the u. s. parent’s consolidated income tax j. withholding taxes withheld by germany on dividends paid to a united kingdom parent corporation

Suppose that real interest rates increase across europe. this development will u. s. net capital outflow at all u. s. real interest rates. this causes the loanable funds to because net capital outflow is a component of that curve.