SCENARIO 10-5
a Hotel Chain Has Identically Small Sized Resorts

question 15

True/False

SCENARIO 10-5
A hotel chain has identically small sized resorts in 5 locations in different small islands.The data that follow resulted from analyzing the hotel occupancies on randomly selected days in the 5 locations. $$\begin{array}{l}\begin{array} { l c c c c c } \text { ROW } & \text { Location A } & \text { Location B } & \text { Location C } & \text { Location D } & \text { Location E } \\\hline 1& 28 & 40 & 21 & 37 & 22 \\2 & 33 & 35 & 21 & 47 & 19 \\3 & 41 & 33 & 27 & 45 & 25\end{array}\\\text { Analysis of Variance }\\\begin{array} { l r r r c c } \hline \text { Source } & d f & \text { SS } & \text { MS } & F & p \\\hline \text { Location } & 4 & 963.6 & & 11.47 & 0.001 \\\text { Error } & 10 & 210.0 & & & \\\text { Total } & & & & & \\\hline\end{array}\end{array}$$
-Referring to SCENARIO 10-5, if a level of significance of 0.05 is chosen, the null hypothesis should be rejected.

Understand the effect of changes in sales, expenses, and assets on financial performance indicators.

Understand the concept of margin in ROI analysis and its computation.

Identify the benefits and drawbacks of using residual income as a performance measure.

Understand the implications of financial decision-making on company divisions.

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