Describe how a manager who derives satisfaction from both income and shirking allocates a 10-hour day between these activities when paid an annual, fixed salary of $130,000. Time spent working: Time spent shirking: When this same manager is given an annual, fixed salary of $130,000 and 5 percent of the firms profits amounting to a total salary of $165,000 per years the manager chooses to work 9 hours and shirks for 1 hours. Given this information, which of the compensation schemes does the manager prefer?

a. The manager is indifferent between the two payment schemes.
b. The scheme with only a fixed payment of $130,000.
c. The scheme with fixed payment of $130,000 and a percentage of profits.

While studying for the engineering economy final exam, you and two friends find yourselves craving a fresh pizza. you can't spare the time to pick up the pizza and must have it delivered. "pick-up-sticks" offers a 1-1/4-inch-thick (including toppings), 20-inch square pizza with your choice of two toppings for $15 plus 5% sales tax and a $1.50 delivery charge (no sales tax on delivery charge). "fred's" offers the round, deep-dish sasquatch, which is 20 inches in diameter. it is 1-3/4 inches thick, includes two toppings, and costs $17.25 plus 5% sales tax and free delivery. 1. what is the problem in this situation? state it in an explicit and precise manner. 2. systematically apply the seven principles of engineering economy (pp. 3-6) to the problem you have defined in part (a). 3. assuming that your common unit of measure is dollars (i. e., cost), what is the better value for getting a pizza based on the criterion of minimizing cost per unit of volume? 4. what other criteria might be used to select which pizza to purchase?

Actual usage for the year by the marketing department was 70,000 copies and by the operations department was 330,000 copies. if a dual-rate cost-allocation method is used, what amount of copying facility costs will be budgeted for the operations department?

What is an example of a good stock to buy in a recession? a) cyclical stock b) defensive stock c) income stock d) bond