Can I please ge thelp with this question? Required information Skip to question   [The following information applies to the questions displayed below.] Franklin Training Services (FTS) provides instruction on the use of computer software for the employees of its corporate clients. It offers courses in the clients’ offices on the clients’ equipment. The only major expense FTS incurs is instructor salaries; it pays instructors $6,000 per course taught. FTS recently agreed to offer a course of instruction to the employees of Novak Incorporated at a price of $700 per student. Novak estimated that 20 students would attend the course. Base your answers on the preceding information.   The instructor has offered to teach the course for a percentage of tuition fees. Specifically, the instructor wants $300 per person attending the class. Assume that the tuition fee remains at $700 per student. Is the cost of instruction a fixed or a variable cost? Determine the profit, assuming that 20 students take the course. Determine the profit, assuming a 10 percent increase in enrollment (i.e., enrollment increases to 22 students). What is the percentage change in profitability? Determine the profit, assuming a 10 percent decrease in enrollment (i.e., enrollment decreases to 18 students). What is the percentage change in profitability?   a. The cost of construction is a fixed or variable expense? b. Determine the profit, assuming that 20 students take the course. c. Determine the profit, assuming a 10 percent increase in enrollment (i.e., enrollment increases to 22 students). What is the percentage change in profitability?          Profit     Change in profitability   %       d. Determine the profit, assuming a 10 percent decrease in enrollment (i.e., enrollment decreases to 18 students). What is the percentage change in profitability? Note: Negative amount should be indicated with a minus sign.         Profit     Change in profitability   %

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Franklin Training Services (FTS) provides instruction on the use of computer software for the employees of its corporate clients. It offers courses in the clients’ offices on the clients’ equipment. The only major expense FTS incurs is instructor salaries; it pays instructors $6,000 per course taught. FTS recently agreed to offer a course of instruction to the employees of Novak Incorporated at a price of $700 per student. Novak estimated that 20 students would attend the course.

Base your answers on the preceding information.

 

The instructor has offered to teach the course for a percentage of tuition fees. Specifically, the instructor wants $300 per person attending the class. Assume that the tuition fee remains at $700 per student.

  1. Is the cost of instruction a fixed or a variable cost?

  2. Determine the profit, assuming that 20 students take the course.

  3. Determine the profit, assuming a 10 percent increase in enrollment (i.e., enrollment increases to 22 students). What is the percentage change in profitability?

  4. Determine the profit, assuming a 10 percent decrease in enrollment (i.e., enrollment decreases to 18 students). What is the percentage change in profitability?

 

a. The cost of construction is a fixed or variable expense?

b.

Determine the profit, assuming that 20 students take the course.

c.

Determine the profit, assuming a 10 percent increase in enrollment (i.e., enrollment increases to 22 students). What is the percentage change in profitability? 

 
 
 
 
Profit    
Change in profitability  

%

 

 

 

d.

Determine the profit, assuming a 10 percent decrease in enrollment (i.e., enrollment decreases to 18 students). What is the percentage change in profitability?
Note: Negative amount should be indicated with a minus sign.

 
 
 
 
Profit    
Change in profitability   %
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