Zion Manufacturing had always made its components in-house. However, Bryce Component Works had recently offered to supply one component, K2, at a price of $12 each. Zion uses 4,800 units of Component K2 each year. The cost per unit of this component is as follows:

Direct materials $7.36
Direct labor 2.66
Variable overhead 1.15
Fixed overhead 4.00
Total $15.17

The fixed overhead is an allocated expense; none of it would be eliminated if production of Component K2 stopped. List the relevant costs for each alternative.

Bond j has a coupon rate of 6 percent and bond k has a coupon rate of 12 percent. both bonds have 14 years to maturity, make semiannual payments, and have a ytm of 9 percent. a. if interest rates suddenly rise by 2 percent, what is the percentage price change of these bonds?

Stormie zanzibar owns a bakery in the fictitious country of olombia. each month the government’s market ministry mails her a large list of the regulated price of goods which include products like bread, muffins and flat bread. the list also dictates the types of goods she can sell at the bakery and what she is to charge. because of the regulations placed on these goods, stormie has increased her production of sweets, pies, cakes, croissants and buns and decreased her supply of breads, muffins and flat bread. she has taken these steps because the sweet goods’ prices are not government controlled. stormie zanzibar lives under what type of economy?

China white was the black market selling of ivory, in which the profit was redistributed back into the trafficking of heroin.