Working capital cash flow. Cool Water, Inc. sells bottled water. The firm keeps in inventory plastic bottles at 11% of the monthly projected sales. These plastic bottles cost $0.007 each. The monthly sales for the first four months of the coming year are as follows: January: 1 comma 900 comma 000 February: 2 comma 300 comma 000 March: 2 comma 900 comma 000 April: 3 comma 000 comma 000 What is the monthly increase or decrease in cash flow for inventory given that an increase is a use of cash and a decrease is a source of cash? Note: Enter a decrease as a negative number. What is the change in working capital for January?

The chromosome manufacturing company produces two products, x and y. the company president, jean mutation, is concerned about the fierce competition in the market for product x. she notes that competitors are selling x for a price well below chromosome's price of $13.50. at the same time, she notes that competitors are pricing product y almost twice as high as chromosome's price of $12.50.ms. mutation has obtained the following data for a recent time period: product x product y number of units 11,000 3,000 direct materials cost per unit $3.23 $3.09 direct labor cost per unit $2.22 $2.10 direct labor hours 10,000 3,500 machine hours 2,100 1,800 inspection hours 80 100 purchase orders 10 30ms. mutation has learned that overhead costs are assigned to products on the basis of direct labor hours. the overhead costs for this time period consisted of the following items: overhead cost item amount inspection costs $16,200 purchasing costs 8,000 machine costs 49,000 total $73,200using direct labor hours to allocate overhead costs determine the gross margin per unit for product x. choose the best answer from the list below. a. $1.93b. $3.12c. $7.38d. $2.43e. $1.73using activity-based costing for overhead allocation, determine the gross margin per unit for product y. choose best answer from list below. a. $10.07b. ($2.27)c. ($5.23)d. ($7.02)e. $7.02