Allure company manufactures and distributes two products, m and xy. overhead costs are currently allocated using the number of units produced as the allocation base. the controller has recommended changing to an activity-based costing (abc) system. she has collected the following information:

activity cost driver amount m xy
production setups number of setups $ 72,000 12 28
material handling number of parts 50,000 54 36
packaging costs number of units 355,000 108,000 72,000
$ 477,000
what is the total overhead allocated to product xy using the current system?

a)$212,400.

b)$190,800.

c)$264,600.

d)$286,200.

The total value of your portfolio is $10,000: $3,000 of it is invested in stock a and the remainder invested in stock b. stock a has a beta of 0.8; stock b has a beta of 1.2. the risk premium on the market portfolio is 8%; the risk-free rate is 2%. additional information on stocks a and b is provided below. return in each state state probability of state stock a stock b excellent 15% 15% 5% normal 50% 9% 7% poor 35% -15% 10% what are each stock’s expected return and the standard deviation? what are the expected return and the standard deviation of your portfolio? what is the beta of your portfolio? using capm, what is the expected return on the portfolio? given your answer above, would you buy, sell, or hold the portfolio?

Identify the three components of a family's culture and provide one example from your own experience

You are a manager at asda. you have been given the demand data for the past 10 weeks for swim rings for children. you decide to run multiple types of forecasting methods on the data to see which gives you the best forecast. if you were to use exponential smoothing with alpha =.8, what would be your forecast for week 22? (the forecast for week 21 was 1277.) week demand 12 1317 13 1307 14 1261 15 1258 16 1267 17 1256 18 1268 19 1277 20 1277 21 1297