A Bakery Makes Fresh Donuts Every Morning

question 47

Multiple Choice

A bakery makes fresh donuts every morning.If any are left at the end of the day they are donated to a homeless shelter.The number of donuts that can be sold each day is uncertain and the bakery must decide early each morning,how many donuts to make that day.The bakery has created the following payoff table to summarize the situation. It estimates the following probabilities for the respective levels of demand. Which alternative should the bakery choose using the expected value method and what is the expected value?

• A)Alternative 1 with expected value of 100
• B)Alternative 2 with expected value of 225
• C)Alternative 3 with expected value of 350
• D)Alternative 3 with expected value of 190

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Definitions:

Retained Earnings

Profits that a company has earned to date, less any dividends or other distributions to shareholders, reinvested in the business or kept as reserve.

Closing Entries

Journal entries made at the end of an accounting period to transfer the balances of temporary accounts to permanent ones, thus preparing the books for the next period.

Adjusted Trial Balance

An enumeration of every account and its balance following adjustment entries, employed in the development of financial reports.

Retained Earnings

The amount of net earnings not paid out as dividends but retained by the company to be reinvested in its core business or to pay debt.