Unit- and batch-level cost drivers
kc, a fast-food restaurant, serves fried chicken, fried fish, and french fries. the managers have estimated the costs of a batch of fried chicken for kc's all-you-can-eat friday fried fiesta. each batch must be 50 pieces. the chicken is precut by the chain headquarters and sent to the stores in 10-piece bags. each bag costs $4. preparing a batch of 50 pieces of chicken with kc's special coating takes one employee two hours. the current wage rate is $9 per hour. another cost driver is the cost of putting fresh oil into the fryers. new oil, costing $6.50, is used for each batch.

Roi analysis using dupont model. charlie? s furniture store has been in business for several years. the firm? s owners have described the store as a ? high-price, highservice? operation that provides lots of assistance to its customers. margin has averaged a relatively high 32% per year for several years, but turnover has been a relatively low 0.4 based on average total assets of $800,000. a discount furniture store is about to open in the area served by charlie? s, and management is considering lowering prices in order to compete effectively. required: a. calculate current sales and roi for charlie? s furniture store. b. assuming that the new strategy would reduce margin to 20%, and assuming that average total assets would stay the same, calculate the sales that would be required to have the same roi as they currently earned. c. suppose that you presented the results of your analysis in parts a and b of this problem to charlie, and he replied, ? what

Balance sheet the assets of dallas & associates consist entirely of current assets and net plant and equipment. the firm has total assets of $2 5 million and net plant and equipment equals $2 million. it has notes payable of $150,000, long-term debt of $750,000, and total common equity of $1 5 million. the firm does have accounts payable and accruals on its balance sheet. the firm only finances with debt and common equity, so it has no preferred stock on its balance sheet. a. what is the company's total debt? b. what is the amount of total liabilities and equity that appears on the firm's balance sheet? c. what is the balance of current assets on the firm's balance sheet? d. what is the balance of current liabilities on the firm's balance sheet? e. what is the amount of accounts payable and accruals on its balance sheet? [hint: consider this as a single line item on the firm's balance sheet.] f. what is the firm's net working capital? g. what is the firm's net operating working capital? h. what is the explanation for the difference in your answers to parts f and g?

Match the various steps in the creative process undertaken by the ad agency for developing the campaign for wpu, to the steps in young's model of the creative process.creative process in developing wpu's campaignyoung's modelafter intensive analysis of the data and several rounds of brainstorming, the agency executives decided to take a break from this project (the wpu campaign), and instead work on a different client's project before tackling the wpu project again.using a combination of animatics and storyboards, the ad agency conducted research with a representative sample of sixty target consumers to pretest the campaign theme and the creative execution.during a brainstorming session in the creative department, a copywriter's suggestion for a slogan for wpu was recognized as an excellent central idea that could drive the campaign for wpu.the account planning, account management and creative departments at the ad agency had a series of meetings and brainstorming sessions to discuss the creative brief and the results of all the primary and secondary research done with the target consumers.the account planning and the account management groups at the ad agency conducted primary research with a representative sample of the target segment and also studied secondary research data to gain insights required for the campaign development process.