During annual inventory week, a department store may ask its employees to work 12 hours a day instead of the usual 8. during tax-preparation time, the store’s accounting department may work similar hours. although accounting employees are in a different department from stockroom and sales employees, it’s reasonable to expect that the accounting employees wouldn’t be terribly upset by the temporary change in hours because they’ve seen it in effect elsewhere in the store. this is an example of innovative change.
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Owns a machine that can produce two specialized products. production time for product tlx is two units per hour and for product mtv is four units per hour. the machine’s capacity is 2,100 hours per year. both products are sold to a single customer who has agreed to buy all of the company’s output up to a maximum of 3,570 units of product tlx and 1,610 units of product mtv. selling prices and variable costs per unit to produce the products follow. product tlx product mtv selling price per unit $ 11.50 $ 6.90 variable costs per unit 3.45 4.14 determine the company's most profitable sales mix and the contribution margin that results from that sales mix.