12.   a powerful trend for us businesses over the past few decades has been to           a. reduce the number of hierarchical layers.   b. increase the number of reporting levels.   c. replace flat organizational structures with tall ones.   d. increase formalization.

On january 2, 2018, bering co. disposes of a machine costing $34,100 with accumulated depreciation of $18,369. prepare the entries to record the disposal under each of the following separate assumptions. exercise 8-24a part 2 2. the machine is traded in for a newer machine having a $50,600 cash price. a $16,238 trade-in allowance is received, and the balance is paid in cash. assume the asset exchange has commercial substance.

Jimmy's delicatessen sells large tins of tom tucker's toffee. the deli uses a periodic review system, checking inventory levels every 88 days, at which time an order is placed for more tins. order lead time is 22 days. daily demand is a constant 1515 tins, so average demand during the reorder period and order lead time (1010 days) is 150150 tins. draw a sawtooth diagram. assume that the beginning inventory level is equal to the restocking level and the desired service level is 99.9%. what is the safety stock level? (hint: look at the formula for calculating restocking level.) what is the average inventory level? the safety stock level is average inventory level is __chart: time (10,20,30), tins (0,150) lines touching both axisthe safety stock level is 0 tinsthe average inventory level is 75 tins

Sean lives in dallas and runs a business that sells boats. in an average year, he receives $722,000 from selling boats. of this sales revenue, he must pay the manufacturer a wholesale cost of $422,000; he also pays wages and utility bills totaling $268,000. he owns his showroom; if he chooses to rent it out, he will receive $2,000 in rent per year. assume that the value of this showroom does not depreciate over the year. also, if sean does not operate this boat business, he can work as a paralegal, receive an annual salary of $21,000 with no additional monetary costs, and rent out his showroom at the $2,000 per year rate. no other costs are incurred in running this boat business.identify each of sean's costs in the following table as either an implicit cost or an explicit cost of selling boats.implicit costexplicit costthe wages and utility bills that sean pays the rental income sean could receive if he chose to rent out his showroom the salary sean could earn if he worked as a paralegal the wholesale cost for the boats that sean pays the