Kranworth Chair Corporation

1. Identify the most important key recurring decisions that must be made effectively for KCC to be successful. In KCC’s functional organization, who had the authority to make these decisions? Who has the authority to make these decisions in KCC’s new divisionalized organization?

2. Did KCC's top management go too far in decentralizing the corporation? Did they not go far enough? Or did they get it just right? Why?

3. Evaluate KCC’s new performance measurement and incentive system. Assuming that KCC will retain its new divisionalized organization structure, what changes would you recommend, if any? Why?

4. Assume that the R&D function is to be decentralized (given to the divisions). Would this necessitate changes to KCC’s performance measurement and incentive system? If so, which and why? If not, why not?

Transactions on april 1 of the current year, andrea byrd established a business to manage rental property. she completed the following transactions during april: opened a business bank account with a deposit of $45,000 from personal funds. purchased office supplies on account, $2,000. received cash from fees earned for managing rental property, $8,500. paid rent on office and equipment for the month, $5,000. paid creditors on account, $1,375. billed customers for fees earned for managing rental property, $11,250. paid automobile expenses for month, $840, and miscellaneous expenses, $900. paid office salaries, $3,600. determined that the cost of supplies on hand was $550; therefore, the cost of supplies used was $1,450. withdrew cash for personal use, $2,000. required: 1. indicate the effect of each transaction and the balances after each transaction: for those boxes in which no entry is required, leave the box blank. for those boxes in which you must enter subtractive or negative numbers use a minus sign. (example: -300)

Bridge building company estimates that it will incur $1,200,000 in overhead costs for the year. additionally, the company estimates 50,000 direct labor hours will be spent building custom walking bridges for the year at a total direct labor cost of $600,000. what is the predetermined overhead rate for bridge building company if direct labor costs are to be used as an allocation base?

Awork system has five stations that have process times of 5, 9, 4, 9, and 8. what is the throughput time of the system? a. 7b. 4c. 18d. 35e. 9