A new strip mall is being considered and the developers want to determine how many parking spaces there should be. It is assumed that if the lot is full, an arriving car will leave. Cars arrive at a rate of 15/hour. The average time a customer spends shopping is 30 minutes. Assume the interarrival times and the shopping times are exponentially distributed. Assume the average shopper purchases $150 worth of merchandise and also assume the mall is open 12 hours/day, 350 days/year.
a) If there are 10 spaces, determine the throughput rate of cars departing after completing shopping, the expected number of cars in the parking lot and the rate of lost revenue due to cars leaving because they could not find a space to park.
b) Assume the cost to create a parking spot is $2500. Assuming a 5 year horizon and an internal interest rate of 15%, how many spots should be built to minimize the combined construction and lost revenue costs?

Answer:

The responses to the given question can be defined as follows:

Explanation:

For point a:

Car arrival time[tex]= \frac{15}{hour}[/tex]

Each car arrives at an interval of time of [tex]\frac{60}{15} = 4\ minutes[/tex]

process time [tex]=0.5 \ hour[/tex]

The number of vehicles moving in an hour equals 2 per hour.

As [tex]\frac{15}{2}[/tex] is greater than 1. The device will not work, resulting in such a revenue loss.

Within 44 minutes, a parking lot would be completely full, with only 1 person being serviced, and then the next empty slot would be completed 64 minutes later.

The system's production capacity is 8.5 per hour [a person entering at 0 will exit at 30]. The person that comes in at 4 will leave at 34. Roughly 50 customers would be supported for an hour.

For point b:

The number of customers would be [tex]= 8.5 \times 12 = 102[/tex] for a 12-hour time frame.

Total cost=[tex]12\times 150 = \$1800[/tex]

The total number of customers to be served at an expense of [tex]2500= \frac{2500}{150} = 18[/tex] customers.

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On January 1, 2020, Korsak, Inc. established a stock appreciation rights plan for its executives. It entitled them to receive cash at any time during the next four years for the difference between the market price of its common stock and a pre-established price of $20 on 120,000 SARs. Current market prices of the stock are as follows: January 1, 2020 $35 per share December 31, 2020 38 per share December 31, 2021 30 per share December 31, 2022 33 per share Compensation expense relating to the plan is to be recorded over a four-year period beginning January 1, 2020. *75. What amount of compensation expense should Korsak recognize for the year ended December 31, 2020

Brett owns investment land located in Tucson, AZ. He exchanges it for other investment land. In which of the following locations may the other investment land be located and enable Brett to qualify for like-kind exchange treatment?

a. Mexico City
b. Mexico Toronto
c. Canada Paris
d. France
e. Only A and B
f. None of the above

During its first year of operations a company recorded accrued expenses totaling $375,000 for book purposes. For tax purposes, $175,000 of the expenses are deductible during the first year of operations and $200,000 are deductible during the second year of operations. The enacted income tax rate was 21% during the first year of operations and 25% during the second year of operations. The income tax expense to be reported in the income statement for the first year of operations is: ________

An engineer is trying to decide which process to use to reduce sludge volume prior to disposal. Belt filter presses (BFP) will cost $203,000 to buy and $85,000 per year to operate. Belts will be replaced one time per year at a cost of $5500. Centrifuges (Cent) will cost $396,000 to buy and $119,000 per year to operate, but because the centrifuge will produce a thicker "cake", the sludge hauling cost to the monofill will be $37,000 per year less than for the belt presses. The useful lives are 5 and 10 years for alternatives BFP and Cent, respectively, and the salvage values are assumed to be 10% of the first cost of each process whenever they are closed down or replaced. Use PW evaluation to select the more economical process at an interest rate of 6% per year over (a) the LCM of lives, and (b) a study period of 8 years. Are the decisions the same?

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Sweet Company has the following securities in its investment portfolio on December 31, 2020 (all securities were purchased in 2020): (1) 2,800 shares of Anderson Co. common stock which cost $56,000, (2) 10,500 shares of Munter Ltd. common stock which cost $588,000, and (3) 6,000 shares of King Company preferred stock which cost $252,000. The Fair Value Adjustment account shows a credit of $10,600 at the end of 2020.

In 2021, Parnevik completed the following securities transactions.

1. On January 15, sold 3,240 shares of Andersonâs common stock at $23 per share less fees of $2,120.
2. On April 17, purchased 1,200 shares of Castleâs common stock at $33 per share plus fees of $1,840.

On December 31, 2021, the market prices per share of these securities were Munter $64, King $40, and Castle $23. In addition, the accounting supervisor of Parnevik told you that, even though all these securities have readily determinable fair values, Parnevik will not actively trade these securities because the top management intends to hold them for more than one year.

Required:
a. Prepare the entry for the security sale on January 15, 2021.
b. Prepare the journal entry to record the security purchase on April 17, 2021.
c. Compute the unrealized gains or losses.

Suppose an economy is producing gasoline. Which of the
following will be true?

a. The marginal benefit of the 100th gallon is bigger than the marginal
benefit of the 5th gallon

b. The marginal benefit of the 100th gallon is smaller than the marginal
benefit of the 5th gallon

c. The opportunity cost of producing the 100th gallon is smaller than the
opportunity cost of the 5th gallon

Consider the following list of transactions: Repay borrowing from the bank, $2,000. Pay employees' salaries of $1,500. Purchase equipment for cash, $10,000. Provide services to customers for cash, $4,500. Issue shares of common stock for cash, $5,000. Pay utilities, $1,000. Provide services to customers on account, $2,500. Sell old delivery truck for cash, $4,000. What amount would the company report for operating cash flows in the statement of cash flows

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What is the term for selling related products?

the part of the technical report should follow this sequence

Encouraging a customer to buy a product related to the one they were already planning to buy is known as

cross-selling
networking
referring
upselling

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Selling and administrative expenses $ 715 Research and development expense $ 114
Net sales 5,450 Income tax expense 276
Interest expense 161 Other expense 46
Advertising expense 499 Cost of goods sold 3,104
Assume a tax rate of 34%.
Assume the marketing department has presented a plan to increase advertising expenses by $340 million. It expects this plan to result in an increase in both net sales and cost of goods sold of 25%.
Prepare a multiple-step income statement. (Round answers to 0 decimal places, e.g. 125.)

Media Relations are marketing activities that involves writing press releases and organizing news conferences for a sports organization

A) True
B) False

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A multinational corporation taps oil reserves in a developing country's rainforest. Which of the following is a potential positive externality resulting from this? (1 point)

a
Better knowledge of rainforest plants

b
Decreased use of local fuel sources

c
Improved roadways for moving equipment

d
Increased profits for the drilling company

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A) The cost of pollution abatement today is much higher than it was in the 1970s. Thus, it would be far more costly to achieve the same level of benefit today as the benefit achieved in 1970.
B) When levels of pollution are high, the marginal benefit of reducing pollution also is high. It follows therefore that the benefit of reducing air pollution in 1970 would be much higher than the benefit from a proportional reduction in air pollution today when the level of pollution is much lower.
C) Today, the level of pollution is much higher. Therefore, it will take a much larger reduction in air pollution to reap benefits similar to those in 1970.
D) When levels of pollution are high, the marginal benefit of reducing pollution is low. Therefore, it was necessary to significantly reduce air pollution in 1970 before benefits could be realized. Today, when the level of pollution is much lower, such drastic measures are unnecessary.

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a. Procurement
b. Human Resources
c. Legal
d. Vendor Management

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a) high initial costs and fees
b) lack of financing
c) lack of managerial assistance
d) poor name recognition and visibility

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