An increase in the number of fast-food restaurants .
a. raises the price of fast-food meals.
b. increases the demand for fast-food meals.
c. increases the supply of fast-food meals.
d. increases the demand for substitutes for fast-food meals.
e. increases both the demand and supply of fast-food meals.

The federal reserve's organization while all members of the federal reserve board of governors vote at federal open market committee (fomc) meetings, only of the regional bank presidents are members of the fomc. the federal reserve's role as a lender of last resort involves lending to which of the following financially troubled institutions? u.s. banks that cannot borrow elsewhere governments in developing countries during currency crises u.s. state governments when they run short on tax revenues the federal reserve's primary tool for changing the money supply is . in order to decrease the number of dollars in the u.s. economy (the money supply), the federal reserve will government bonds.

Nichols inc. manufactures remote controls. currently the company uses a plantminuswide rate for allocating manufacturing overhead. the plant manager is considering switchingminusover to abc costing system and has asked the accounting department to identify the primary production activities and their cost drivers which are as follows: activities cost driver allocation rate material handling number of parts $5 per part assembly labor hours $20 per hour inspection time at inspection station $10 per minute the current traditional cost method allocates overhead based on direct manufacturing labor hours using a rate of $20 per labor hour. what are the indirect manufacturing costs per remote control assuming an method is used and a batch of 10 remote controls are produced? the batch requires 100 parts, 5 direct manufacturing labor hours, and 3 minutes of inspection time.

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