Gentle ben's bar and restaurant uses 5,000 quart bottles of an imported wine each year. the effervescent wine costs $3per bottle and is served only in whole bottles because it loses its bubbles quickly. ben figures that it costs $10 each time anorder is placed, and holding costs are 20 percent of the purchase price. it takes three weeks for an order to arrive. weeklydemand is 100 bottles (closed two weeks per year) with a standard deviation of 30 bottles. ben would like to use an inventory system that minimizes inventory cost and will provide a 95 percent service probability. a. what is the economic quantity for ben to order? b. at what inventory level should he place an order?

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Which of the following statements is correct? a. two firms with identical sales and operating costs but with different amounts of debt and tax rates will have different operating incomes by definition. b. free cash flow (fcf) is, essentially, the cash flow that is available for interest and dividends after the company has made the investments in current and fixed assets that are necessary to sustain ongoing operations. c. retained earnings as reported on the balance sheet represent cash and, therefore, are available to distribute to stockholders as dividends or any other required cash payments to creditors and suppliers. d. if a firm is reporting its income in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, then its net income as reported on the income statement should be equal to its free cash flow. e. after-tax operating income is calculated as ebit(1 - t) + depreciation.

Electronics assembly inc. is a contract manufacturer that assembles consumer electronics for a number of companies. currently, the operations manager is assessing the capacity requirements as input into a bid for a job to assemble cell phones for a major global company. the company would assemble three models of cell phones in the same assembly cell. setup time between the phones is negligible. electronics assembly inc. operates two 8-hour shifts for 275 days per year. cell phone demand forecast (phones/year) processing time (minutes/phone) mars 47,000 19.8 saturn 35,000 20.7 neptune 7,500 16.2 a. calculate total capacity required by line. b. determine the total operating time available. c. calculate the total number of assembly cells. (round up your answer to the next whole number.)