Can you answer 1, 2, 3, 5, & 6?

1. A company has gathered the following financial information for itself and a competing firm. It wants to compare productivity for the two firms (all numbers in 000s). Labor Plant and equipment Energy Materials Sales Firm A 530,000 200,000 17.500 200,000 1,200,000 Firm B $16,000 150,000 20,500 180,000 900,000 Compute partial and total factor productivity measures for Firms A and B. b. What is the picture you get of the two firms? c. What would you suggest to the management of Firm B? 2. For the firms in Problem 1. you have been asked to make a report to the management of Firm A. What are some of the caveals relating to accounting practices would you include in the report? Which num. bers should be interpreted cautiously? 3. For the data in Problem I suppose that Firm Bis a foreign firm. What additional caveats would you place on interpretation of the data? Marketing Manufacturing Engineering 12.5 5.0 11.8 116 24 8.0 6.0 Aerospace Automotive Communications Components Computer Electromechanical Electronic Subsystems Heavy Mechanical Instrumentation Light Assembly Medical Cross-industry CO TONO Supply Chain 10.0 6.0 20.0 5.5 12.5 10.0 8.0 9.0 6.1 3.3 13.4 8.2 The preceding table shows industry comparisons of the percentage of sales spent on salaries for marketing employees, manufacturing engineering employees, and supply chain employees for several different industries, Rank these industries by the amount spent in each of the areas and report your findings to management. What can you infer from your findings about each of the industries? 6. Using the data from Problem 5, suppose that you are a computer company that spends 99 on market ing stall. 6% on manufacturing engineering, and 8% on supply chain staff. Comparing your expendi- tures with the previous averages, what would you recommend to management? What more informa tion would you want? 7 Folloin is menfumy mm