Solar Engines manufactures solar engines for tractor-trailers. Given the fuel savings available, new orders for 115units have been made by customers requesting credit. The variable cost is $8,800 per unit, and the credit price is$10,750 each. Credit is extended for one period. The required return is 1.4 percent per period. If Solar Enginesextends credit, it expects that 35 percent of the customers will be repeat customers and place the same orderevery period forever and the remaining customers will be one-time orders. Calculate the NPV of the decision togrant credit. (Enter your answer in dollars, not millions of dollars, e.g., 1,234,567. Do not round intermediatecalculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)

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Solar Engines manufactures solar engines for tractor - trailers. Given the fuel savings available, new orders for 175 units have been made by customers requesting credit. The variable cost is $11, 200 per unit, and the credit price is $13, 750 each. Credit is extended for one period. The required return is 1.7 percent per period. If Solar Engines extends credit, it expects that 35 percent of the customers will be repeat customers and place the same order every period forever and the remaining customers will be one time orders. Calculate the NPV of the decision to grant credit. (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e. g., 32.16.)
Zoey Enterprises manufactures solar engines for helicopters. Given the fuel savings available, new orders for 125 units have been made by customers requesting credit. The variable cost is $11,400 per unit, and the credit price is $13,000 each. Credit is extended for one period. The required return is 1.9 percent per period. If Zoey Enterprises extends credit, it expects that 30 percent of the customers will be repeat customers and place the same order every period forever, and the remaining customers will place one-time orders. Should credit be extended? b) Now,assumethattheprobabilityofdefaultis15percent.Shouldtheordersbefillednow? Assume the number of repeat customers is affected by the defaults. In other words, 30 percent of the customers who do not default are expected to be repeat customers.
Solar Engines manufactures solar engines for tractor-trailers. Given the fuel savings available, new orders for 135 units have been made by customers requesting credit. The variable cost is $9,600 per unit, and the credit price is $11,750 each. Credit is extended for one period. The required return is 1.8 percent per period. If Solar Engines extends credit, it expects that 20 percent of the customers will be repeat customers and place the same order every period forever and the remaining customers will be one-time orders. Calculate the NPV of the decision to grant credit. (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) O Answer is complete but not entirely correct. NPV $ 5,386,717.95
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Currently, OET Corporation sells 350,000 units of widgets a month at a price of $21 a unit. The company currently has a net 30 credit policy. Mr. Ent, the company's financial manager, is evaluating a new credit policy of net 60 for the company. The marketing manager thinks that sales would increase by 10,000 units per month if the company were to switch to the new credit policy. The APR for OET is 13% compounded monthly, and its variable cost per widget is $12. Ignore taxes. Tomorrow, Mr. Ent will be making a presentation on the new proposed credit policy to the CEO of OET. He will be expected to provide answers to the following questions. As another alternative, suppose the company offers a credit policy of 3/10, net 60. The periodic rate based on this new credit policy is © а. 13.00% O b. 3.09% O c. 10.00% O d. 3.00% O e. 6.09%
Western Jeans Co. has an annual plant capacity of 2,000,000 units, and current production is 1,920,000 units. Monthly fixed costs are $400,000, and variable costs are $9 per unit. The present selling price is $15 per unit. On July 6 of the current year, the company received an offer from Childs Company for 50,000 units of the product at $13 each. Childs Company will market the units in a foreign country under its own brand name. The additional business is not expected to affect the domestic selling price or quantity of sales of Western Jeans Co. Question Content Area a. Prepare a differential analysis dated July 6 on whether to reject (Alternative 1) or accept (Alternative 2) the Childs order. If an amount is zero, enter "0". If required, use a minus sign to indicate a loss. Differential AnalysisReject (Alt. 1) or Accept (Alt. 2) OrderJuly 6 Line Item Description Reject Order(Alternative 1) Accept Order(Alternative 2) Differential Effects(Alternative 2) Revenues $Revenues…
Golden Gate Novelties (GGN) sells souvenir key chains at the local airport. GGN charges $12.00 per chain. The variable cost for a chain, including the wholesale cost of the chain, packaging, the commission paid to the airport operator, and so on, is $10.40. The annual fixed cost for GGN is $15,000. Required: a. How many cases must Golden Gate Novelties sell every year to break even? Note: Do not round intermediate calculations. b. The owner of GGN believes that the company can sell 12,500 chains a year. What is the margin of safety in terms of the number of chains? a. Break-even point b. Margin of safety chains chains
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Currently, OET Corporation sells 350,000 units of widgets a month at a price of $ 21 a unit. The company currently has a net 30 credit policy. Mr. Ent, the company's financial manager, is evaluating a new credit policy of net 60 for the company. The marketing manager thinks that sales would increase by 10,000 units per month if the company were to switch to the new credit policy. The APR for OET is 13% compounded monthly, and its variable cost per widget is $12. Ignore taxes. Tomorrow, Mr. Ent will be making a presentation on the new proposed credit policy to the CEO of OET. He will be expected to provide answers to the following questions. The net present value of the proposed credit policy switch is O a. $837,692.31 O b. 5437.295.90 O c. $783,926.13 O d. $592,032.32 O e. $639,284.55

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