Ahigh-level manager gathers his team of supervisors together to create a new office policy that will affect all employees at the company. after receiving a verbal okay from the supervisors, he then proceeds to pass around a written form of the new policy and asks all members of the team to initial it. he explains to the supervisors that the new policy will be posted in the break rooms on each floor of corporate headquarters.
if you were a part of this work team, which question would you ultimately ask yourself before initialing your approval of this policy

a. is it legal?
b. is it balanced?
c. how will it make me feel about myself?
d. is it a lose-lose situation?

Excellent inc. had a per-unit conversion cost of $3.00 during april and incurred direct materials cost of $112,000, direct labor costs of $84,000, and manufacturing overhead costs of $50,400 during the month. how many units did it manufacture during the month? a. 18,000 b. 44,800 c. 70,000 d. 30,000

Suppose that xtel currently is selling at $40 per share. you buy 500 shares using $15,000 of your own money, borrowing the remainder of the purchase price from your broker. the rate on the margin loan is 8%. a. what is the percentage increase in the net worth of your brokerage account if the price of xtel immediately changes to (a) $44; (b) $40; (c) $36? (leave no cells blank - be certain to enter "0" wherever required. negative values should be indicated by a minus sign. round your answers to 2 decimal places.) b. if the maintenance margin is 25%, how low can xtel’s price fall before you get a margin call? (round your answer to 2 decimal places.) c. how would your answer to requirement 2 would change if you had financed the initial purchase with only $10,000 of your own money? (round your answer to 2 decimal places.) d. what is the rate of return on your margined position (assuming again that you invest $15,000 of your own money) if xtel is selling after one year at (a) $44; (b) $40; (c) $36? (negative values should be indicated by a minus sign. round your answers to 2 decimal places.) e. continue to assume that a year has passed. how low can xtel’s price fall before you get a margin call? (round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

Down under products, ltd., of australia has budgeted sales of its popular boomerang for the next four months as follows: unit salesapril 74,000may 85,000june 114,000july 92,000the company is now in the process of preparing a production budget for the second quarter. past experience has shown that end-of-month inventory levels must equal 10% of the following month’s unit sales. the inventory at the end of march was 7,400 units.required: prepare a production budget by month and in total, for the second quarter.