Chapter 1, Problem 8.1EC

Please help me answer this one! Read the given case study and answer the following questions.: In April 2013, more than one thousand factory workers died when the eight-story Plaza building in Dhaka Bangladesh, collapsed. Investigation revealed that the building was home to a handful of factories that manufactured foreign clothing brands. Why only a few of the companies, have put money towards compensating the victims and their families, half the brands associated with the collapse, such as Benetton, Carrefour, and JCPenney, have yet to shell out money to assist those injured or the families who have lost a loved one. GUIDE QUESTIONS: 1. What would you suggest in order eliminate these work-related tragedies? 2. Would you continue to support the brands that have been mentioned as violators of human rights?

Nestlés reputation was damaged when the company was accused of which of the following? A. forcing mothers to buy baby formula within days of delivering their bables B. promoting inadequate nutrition in developing countries C. providing cheap formula to mothers in developing countries, but more expensive to mothers in developed countries D. selling poor quality bottled water to developing countries

Hoodys for Good manufactures and sells hooded sweatshirts. The company locates its manufacturing facilities in areas with high unemployment rates and provides on-site day care and education for its employees’ children. The company recently started a “one for one” program where, for each sweatshirt sold, it will donate one sweatshirt to an international charity to provide to a child in need. The customer pays the shipping cost for items purchased, but the company pays to ship to the international charities.Cost information is summarized below:Variable Costs Direct Materials $ 3.00 per unit produced Direct Labor $ 2.50 per unit produced Variable Manufacturing Overhead $ 0.50 per unit produced Shipping $ 3.00 per unit donated Fixed Costs Salaries $ 20,000 per month Advertising $ 60,000 per month Production Equipment $ 40,000 per monthRequired: Answer each of the following independent questions.1.Assume that the price of each sweatshirt sold is $30.a.How much contribution margin is earned…

Which of the following is false about the CARES Act? O the second largest allocation was to the hospitals and health care systems O UNLV will get about $25,000,000 O its forbids members of Congress and Senators from getting money for their businesses O some people will get unemployment checks larger than their paychecks were

The board of directors of Earth Rock's!, a nonprofit organization focused on environmental protection, hypothesizes that individuals are more likely to donate if they see evidence that their donations are used primarily for program activities rather than administrative and fund-raising costs. To get a sense of how its own cost structure compares to other groups, the board decides to benchmark the financial performance of Earth Rocks! against several other environmental organizations. The data for Earth Rocks! and the other environmental organizations appear below   Program Expenditures Fund-raising Costs Administrative Costs Total Costs Earth Rocks 374,900 98,000 121,400 594,300 Weed Lovers 421,000 104,300 98,350 623,650 Flora and Fauna 353,000 97,600 71,840 522,840 Leaf It Be 501,900 89,000 109,750 700,650 Nature's Gift 455,470 71,000 82,450 608,920 Use these data to benchmark Earth Rocks! against the other environmental organizations. How does Earth Rocks! compare to…

A vegetable vendor gave eight hundred grams of tomatoes to a lady who had asked for one kilogram of it. What type of unethical act you observe here? a. Riba b. Giving short measures c. Swearing d. Hoarding

Everyone was affected by the economic impacts of COVID-19 including nonprofits. Donations plummeted and volunteers dried up but the community's need for help only grew. The table below provides information for the Transformation Station, a nonprofit that focuses on people experiencing homelessness for the first time. Transformation Station has determined they need a bigger storage facility. They first need to perform a sensitivity analysis to determine whether to build a larger storage facility. Part 1: Perform a sensitivity analysis (aka net present value) for the three options above. Show work Part 2: Remember that we have very little control over whether the Conservative, Most Likely, or Optimistic Estimate is realized. In other words, this analysis is similar to saying, "Well, we don't know exactly how much it will cost or how much you will save. However, we have done some analysis - based on the current economic environment - and we believe it will be somewhere between the…

In light of the fact that people are finding it difficult to earn a living during the pandemic, what do you consider to be a profitable crop-related business? Justify.

Becky Shelton, a marketing coordinator for Douglass Enterprises, is in charge of ordering the T-shirts to be sold for the company's annual fund-raising project. The T-shirts are printed with a special Douglass Enterprises logo. In some years, the supply of T-shirts has been insufficient to satisfy the number of sales orders. In other years, T-shirts have been left over. Excess T- shirts are normally donated to some charitable organization. T-shirts cost the company $7 each and are normally sold for $14 each. Ms. Shelton has decided to order 700 shirts. Required a. If the company receives actual sales orders for 625 shirts, what amount of profit will the company earn? What is the cost of waste due to excess inventory? b. If the company receives actual sales orders for 740 shirts, what amount of profit will the company earn? What amount of opportunity cost will the company incur? a. Profit a. Waste due to excess inventory b. Profit b. Opportunity cost