Question: Each week, you will be asked to respond to the prompt or prompts in the discussion forum. Your initial post should be 75-150 words in length, and is due on Sunday. By Tuesday, you should respond to two additional posts from your peers.
Loans: Congratulations! You are a proud owner of an engraving business. However, you are using an aging rotary engraver to engrave plaques and trophies. The machine has been reliable, but does require regular maintenance and periodic replacement of parts. You have just found out that this engraver will no longer be supported by the manufacturer. This means that service and parts will be hard to get in the future, and if it breaks it could take up to three weeks to get a new one up and running. You keep this machine running almost 8 hours a day, every day. Every day that engraver is down will cost around $975 in lost income.
If you have to buy a new engraver, it would cost around $25,000.
You can get a one-year loan at 12% to buy a new engraver, but you worry that this is a lot of money to spend, especially since the old engraver is still working fine. You have to make a decision.
In this discussion, pose your argument on whether you should purchase a new engraver now or wait until the old engraver breaks before ordering a new engraver.
To help you construct your argument answer the following steps:
The local bank will loan you $25,000 for 1 year at an interest rate of 12% with only one payment due at the end of the year. If you borrow the full $25,000 for the new engraver, what will the total cost of the loan be?
Calculate the total amount of revenue (gross profit) that will be lost if the engraver breaks and is down for 18 business days.
If the engraving business makes $975 per day in revenue and generates a net profit of 25%, how much profit is generated per day?
Given a 25% profit margin and $975 per day in revenue, how many days would it take for the new engraver to earn back the total cost of purchase, if the entire net profit were allocated to pay for the unit?
What other factors should you consider in order to make a good business decision?
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Each week, you will be asked to respond to the prompt or prompts in the discussion forum. Your initial post should be 75-150 words in length, and is due on Sunday. By Tuesday, you should respond to two additional posts from your peers.
Credit Cards
Sharese thinks that it is about time for her to get a credit card. She would like to buy a car in the not-too-distant future and knows she will need to establish a credit history. She has received several offers in the mail and has downloaded offers from several card companies from card websites. As she reviews the various offers, she finds that the process of evaluating cards is more complicated than she expected.
To help her out, please answer the following questions:
What questions should a consumer ask before accepting a credit card?
What are the advantages of building a good credit history?
What are the disadvantages of having access to credit?