Discuss the benchmarking data on pages 5 and 6 of each year's footwear industry report. how well is your company doing? then, locate a scholarly journal article on the nature of operations bottlenecks (manufacturing or service). discuss the article, and relate it to the performance of your bsg company. support your answer with research from scholarly sources. your initial posting must be a minimum of 250 words.

Uppose the book-printing industry is competitive and begins in a long-run equilibrium. then hi-tech printing company invents a new process that sharply reduces the cost of printing books. suppose hi-tech's patent prevents other firms from using the new technology. which of the following statements are true about what happens in the short run? check all that apply. hi-tech's average-total-cost curve shifts downward. hi-tech's profits increase. the price of books remains the same. hi-tech's marginal-cost curve remains the same.

Clonex labs, inc., uses the weighted-average method in its process costing system. the following data are available for one department for october: percent completed units materials conversion work in process, october 1 53,000 90 % 65 % work in process, october 31 29,000 74 % 52 % the department started 381,000 units into production during the month and transferred 405,000 completed units to the next department. required: compute the equivalent units of production for october.

Which feature transfers a slide show into a word-processing document?