A company employs four classes of machine operators (A,B,C,D): all new employees are hired as class D
and, through a system of promotion, may work up...
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A company employs four classes of machine operators (A,B,C,D): all new employees are hired as class D
and, through a system of promotion, may work up to a higher class. Currently, there are 200 class D, 150
class C, 90 class B and 60 class A employees. The company has signed an agreement with the union
specifying that 20 percent of all employees in each class be promoted, one class in each year. Statistics show that each year 25 percent of the class D employees are separated from the company by reason such as retirement, resignation and death. Similarly 15 percent of class C, 10 percent of class B and 5 percent of class A employees are also separated. For each employee lost, the company hires a new class D employee.
Required:
i) The transition matrix.
ii) The number of employees in each class two years after the agreement with the union.
iii) The equilibrium state in number of employees.
Date posted:
December 6, 2018
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XYZ Company Limited invests in a particular project and it has been estimated that after X months of
running,
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XYZ Company Limited invests in a particular project and it has been estimated that after X months of
running, the cumulative profit (Sh.„000‟) from the project is given by the function 10x-x2-5,
where x represents time in months. The project can run for eleven months at most.
Required:
i) Determine the initial cost of the project.
ii) Calculate the break-even time in months for the project.
iii) Determine the best time to end the project.
iv) Determine the total profit within the break-even points
Date posted:
December 6, 2018
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Gatheru and Kabiru Certified Public Accountants have recently started to give business advise to their
clients. Acting as consultants, they have estimated the demand curve of...
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Gatheru and Kabiru Certified Public Accountants have recently started to give business advise to their
clients. Acting as consultants, they have estimated the demand curve of a clients firm to be;
AR=200-8Q
Where AR is average revenue in millions of shillings and Q is the output in units.
Investigation of the client firm‟s cost profile shows that marginal cost (MC) is given by:
MC=Q2-28Q+211(In million shillings)
Further investigations have shown that the firm‟s cost when not producing output is sh.10 million.
Required:
i) The equation of total cost
ii) The equation of total revenue
iii) An expression for profit.
iv) The level of output that maximizes profit
v) The equation of marginal revenue.
Date posted:
December 6, 2018
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Two CPA students were discussing the relationship between average cost and total cost. One student said
that since average cost is obtained by dividing the cost...
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Two CPA students were discussing the relationship between average cost and total cost. One student said
that since average cost is obtained by dividing the cost function by the number of units Q, it follows that the derivative of the average cost is the same as marginal cost, since the derivative of Q is 1.
Required:
Comment on this analysis.
Date posted:
December 6, 2018
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Demand function for a firm is given by
P=12 - 0.4Q
P is the price of the product, Q is the quantity demanded, and the total cost...
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Demand function for a firm is given by
P=12 - 0.4Q
P is the price of the product, Q is the quantity demanded, and the total cost (C) is given by
C = 5 + 4Q + 0.6Q2
At what price and quantity will the firm have maximum profit? If the firm aims at maximizing sales, what
price should it charge?
Date posted:
December 6, 2018
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