Raymond barrows owned a 17-acre parcel of undeveloped land in seaford, delaware. for most of his life, mr. barrows had been an astute and successful businessman, but by the time he was 85 years old, he had been diagnosed as "very senile and confused 90 percent of the time." glenn bowen offered to buy the land. barrows had no idea of its value, so bowen had it appraised by a friend, who said it was worth $50,000. bowen drew up a contract, which barrows signed. in the contract, barrows agreed to sell the land for $45,000, of which bowen would pay $100 at the time of closing; the remaining $44,900 was due whenever bowen developed the land and sold it. there was no time limit on bowen’s right to develop the land nor any interest due on the second payment. what is the best argument against enforcing this agreement?
(a) barrows is illiterate
(b) barrows is mentally incompetent
(c) barrows is financial unstable
(d) none of the above

The development price itself is such a huge barrier, it's just a very different business model than boeing's used to. our huge development programs are typically centered around commercial airplanes, military aircraft, where there is a lot of orders. and right now the foundation of the business is two bites a year.

Zachary company produces commercial gardening equipment. since production is highly automated, the company allocates its overhead costs to product lines using activity-based costing. the costs and cost drivers associated with the four overhead activity cost pools follow: activities unit level batch level product level facility level cost $ 64,800 $ 27,730 $ 15,000 $ 154,000 cost driver 2,400 labor hrs. 47 setups percentage of use 11,000 units production of 780 sets of cutting shears, one of the company’s 20 products, took 240 labor hours and 7 setups and consumed 15 percent of the product-sustaining activities. required: (a) had the company used labor hours as a company wide allocation base, how much overhead would it have allocated to the cutting shears? (b) how much overhead is allocated to the cutting shears using activity-based costing? (c) compute the overhead cost per unit for cutting shears first using activity-based costing and then using direct labor hours for allocation if 780 units are produced. if direct product costs are $150 and the product is priced at 30 percent above cost for what price would the product sell under each allocation system? (d) assuming that activity-based costing provides a more accurate estimate of cost, indicate whether the cutting shears would be over- or underpriced if direct labor hours are used as an allocation base. explain how over-or undercosting can affect vaulker's profitability. (e) comment on the validity of using the allocated facility-level cost in the pricing decision. should other costs be considered in a cost- plus pricing decision? if so, which ones? what costs would you include if you were trying to decide whether to accept a special order?

Compute the cost of not taking the following cash discounts. (use a 360-day year. do not round intermediate calculations. input your final answers as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.)