The Chicago Tribune's published article about BP led to Select one: a. an increase in BP's stock price b. protests c. the positive popularity of BP d. health hazards

The following cost data relate to the manufacturing activities of chang company during the just completed year: manufacturing overhead costs incurred: indirect materials $ 15,800 indirect labor 138,000 property taxes, factory 8,800 utilities, factory 78,000 depreciation, factory 150,600 insurance, factory 10,800 total actual manufacturing overhead costs incurred $ 402,000 other costs incurred: purchases of raw materials (both direct and indirect) $ 408,000 direct labor cost $ 68,000 inventories: raw materials, beginning $ 20,800 raw materials, ending $ 30,800 work in process, beginning $ 40,800 work in process, ending $ 70,800 the company uses a predetermined overhead rate of $20 per machine-hour to apply overhead cost to jobs. a total of 20,500 machine-hours were used during the year. required: 1. compute the amount of underapplied or overapplied overhead cost for the year. 2. prepare a schedule of cost of goods manufactured for the year.

Needs to schedule the staffing of the center. it is open from 8am until midnight. larry has monitored the usage of the center at various times of the day and determined that the following number of computer consultants are required: time of dayminimum number of consultants required to be on duty8 am-noon4noon-4 pm84pm-8pm108pm-midnight6 two types of computer consultants can be hired: full-time and part-time. the full- time consultants work for eight consecutive hours in any of the shifts: morning (8am- 4pm), afternoon (noon-8pm) and evening (4pm-midnight). full-time consultants are paid $14 per hour. part-time consultants can be hired to work any of the four shifts listed in the table. part-time consultants are paid $12 per hour. an additional requirement is that during every time period, there must be at least two full-time consultants on duty for every part-time consultant on duty. larry would like to determine how many full-time and part-time consultants should work each shift to meet the above requirements at the minimum possible cost. formulate this as an lp problem. you must define your variables clearly

Which critical success factor improves with reduced cycle time, better quality standards, and improved efficiency when an is is implemented?