northwood company manufactures basketballs. the company has a ball that sells for $25. at present, the ball is manufactured in a small plant that relies heavily on direct labor workers. thus, variable expenses are high, totaling $15.00 per ball, of which 60% is direct labor cost.

You are evaluating two different silicon wafer milling machines. the techron i costs $285,000, has a three-year life, and has pretax operating costs of $78,000 per year. the techron ii costs $495,000, has a five-year life, and has pretax operating costs of $45,000 per year. for both milling machines, use straight-line depreciation to zero over the project’s life and assume a salvage value of $55,000. if your tax rate is 24 percent and your discount rate is 11 percent, compute the eac for both machines.

Consider a firm with a contract to sell an asset for $149,000 four years from now. the asset costs $85,000 to produce today. a. given a relevant discount rate of 14 percent per year, calculate the profit the firm will make on this asset. (a loss should be indicated by a minus sign. do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e. g., 32.16.) b. at what rate does the firm just break even?

1. using only the amounts given, compute net cash provided by operations, both without and with the reclassification of the receivables. which reporting makes moss look better? 2. under what condition would the reclassification of the receivables be ethical? 3. unethical?