PART (i) (20 marks) Walker Company uses a job costing system at its plant. The plant has two production departments – Machining and Assembly. Its job-costing system has two direct cost categories (direct materials and direct manufacturing labour) and two manufacturing overhead cost pools (the Machining Department, allocated using machine hours and the Assembly Department, allocated using direct manufacturing labour costs). The 2010 budget for the plant is as follows: Machining Dept. Assembly
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− .026Z + .00018Z2 TC = AVC*Q = 1.24Q + .0033Q2 + .0000029Q3 − .000046Q2Z − .026ZQ + .00018QZ2 b. Determine the long-run marginal cost function for electricity generation. Differentiate TC to get MC = 1.24 + .0066Q + .0000087Q2 − .000092QZ − .026Z + .00018Z2 c. Holding plant size constant at 150,000 kilowatts, determine the short-run average variable cost and marginal cost functions for electricity generation. Put Z= 150 to get AVC = 1.24 + .0033Q + .0000029Q2 − .000046QZ − .026Z + .00018Z2
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2. As with any costing system, a firm should use activity-based costing (ABC) when the: A) currently used system doesn't seem to be working. B) benefits of such a system exceed the cost of implementation. C) firm wants more detailed information. D) firm's production growth exceeds 20 percent per year. E) current system has been in use for a long time. 3. One limitation of activity-based costing (ABC) is that: A)
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revenue exceeds total cost. A2. Marginal revenue is the change in total revenue from the sale of one additional unit. Marginal cost is the change in total cost as output changes by one unit. Profit maximization occurs when marginal revenue and marginal cost are equal. B. Marginal revenue is calculated by taking the change in total revenue / the change in quantity. B1. In the given scenario, one must calculate how much Company A made in marginal revenue from each widget by dividing
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National Income II Sherif Khalifa, Ph.D. Department of Economics California State University, Fullerton Sherif Khalifa, Ph.D. Department of Economics California National Income II State University, Fullerton () 1 / 31 Circular Flow Income Markets for factors of Production Private Saving Factor Payments Financial Markets Public Saving Taxes Households Government Firms Government Purchases Investment Markets for Consumption Goods and Services Firm Revenue Sherif Khalifa, Ph
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A CASE STUDY ON MANAGING GROWTH AT SPORTSTUFF.COM A group case report during the class IOM 581 – Supply Chain Management Prof. Sosic Greys UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SPRING 2013 SportStuff.com SportStuff.com was founded by Sanjay Gupta in 1996. This business supplied sports equipment for children. Children tend to outgrow their size in no time. Hence, parents had to discard the sports equipment every now and then. SportStuff.com sold used equipment from other customers and surplus
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effective for the CB. Competition Bikes is using a traditional based costing (TBC). There needs to be a comparison between the current use of TBC and activity based costing (ABC) to decide which is most beneficial to the company. Also, the breakeven point to cost volume profit needs to be evaluated. There is a potential for a $50,000 increase in production and a 10% material cost increase. A1 Costing Method Traditional Based Costing is, “The allocation of manufacturing overhead (indirect manufacturing
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MICROECONOMICS 203 Final Exam March 2013 1) Economics is the study of A) how to invest in the stock market. B) how society uses limited resources. C) the role of money in markets. D) how government officials decide which goods and services are produced. 2) Deciding how a society's products are distributed among its citizens answers the economic question of A) who consumes the products produced. B) what products will be produced. C) where will the products be consumed. D) how
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|$750.00 |$298.00 | |9 |$1,179.00 |$880.00 |$299.00 | |10 |$1,310.00 |$1,030.00 |$280.00 | A2. Marginal revenue (MR) is extra profit a company makes selling one more unit of a product. Marginal cost (MC) is the expenditure to the company to produce one more product. This is calculated taking the total cost (TC) of the last product made and subtracting the total cost (TC) of the product before
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Microeconomic Assignment | The cost of Competition | Case Analysis | Justine Liu MBA Candidate at TiasNimbas Business School | * Explain how between January and September 1997 the game changed compared to that which had existed prior to January 1997. Prior to January 1997, there were only two big players in the market of flights between Turin in Italy and Innsbruck in Austria. These two players are Air Turin and Innsbruck Air. Thus we can conclude this market was a duopoly one
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