Company B, a video games developer, wants to use data to track the amount of traffic it receives on its social media pages. It specifically wants to find out the demographic it is most popular with on this platform, and
how it can branch out to different demographics through further advertising.
How best could the company use big data to expand its demographic reach?
Select ALL that apply.
Answer : A, B, C
Juan is looking to invest in the mining industry. He has narrowed his options down to two rival companies, both with sales of 200m. Company A has an EBIT of 10m whereas Company B has an EBIT of 14m.
This would suggest that Company B is the better investment but Juan is suspicious that Company B has more financial backing than Company A.
Which ratios will tell him which company will use his investment the best?
Answer : A, B
TTR Ltd plans to purchase a new plant for $1,000m on the 1st of January 20X6. The annual sales expected from the production of this plant is S400m per year. The plant has an expected life of five years. The financial accountant has computed the NPV of the project at $61.42m considering a discount rate of 10%. The marketing director wants to know the percentage drop in revenue that the sales team can afford before the project becomes unviable. Which of the following indicates the percentage required by the marketing
director?
Answer : A
A large supermarket is applying direct product profitability analysis to establish the profit earned by each of the products it sells.
Data for product P are as follows.
The shelf is stacked each time that all units are sold and there are no units of product P left unsold at the end of each day.
What is the direct product profit per unit of product P?
Give your answer to the nearest $0.01.
See Below Explanation:
Answer : A
SQ has the opportunity to invest in project X. The net present value for project X is $12,600. Cash inflows occur in years 1, 2 and 3. The company's cost of capital is 14%.
Calculate the annualized equivalent annuity of project X.
Give your answer to the nearest whole $.
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See Below Explanation:
Answer : A
A manufacturing company sells a large range of products. Forecast data for the next period for one of these products are as follows.
After manufacture, each complete batch must be stored in a local warehouse until it is subsequently sent to the company's main national warehouse. The company does not own a local warehouse. A local warehouse with a maximum capacity of 500 units could be rented for $2,450 for the next period.
Alternatively a larger local warehouse with a maximum capacity of 700 units could be rented for $3,430 for the next period.The company will not begin the manufacture of any new batch until the previous batch has been sent to its main national warehouse.
What would be the change in the total cost of set up and storage if the batch size was changed to 600 units?
Give your answer to the nearest whole $.
See Below Explanation:
Answer : A
A project is viable because it has a positive net present value (NPV).
Details of four of the input variables, together with the sensitivity of the viability of the project to a change in each one in isolation, are given below.
Which of the following statements is correct?
Answer : C