A company, which records its delivery trucks at the market price, has violated the following concept:

Upscale hotels in the united states recently cut their prices by 20 percent in an effort to bolster dwindling occupancy rates among business travelers. a survey performed by a major research organization indicated that businesses are wary of current economic conditions and are now resorting to electronic media, such as the internet and the telephone, to transact business. assume a company's budget permits it to spend $5,000 per month on either business travel or electronic media to transact business. graphically illustrate how a 20 percent decline in the price of business travel would impact this company's budget set if the price of business travel was initially $1,000 per trip and the price of electronic media was $500 per hour. suppose that, after the price of business travel drops, the company issues a report indicating that its marginal rate of substitution between electronic media and business travel is 1. is the company allocating resources efficiently? explain.

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.

Jiffy printing shops does a lot of printing job for college students. the shop use an average of 25 cases of copy paper each day during the 312 days last year. the shop opens 6 days a week for 52 weeks each year and closes on sundays. each case of paper costs $35. it conducts a count of its paper inventory at the end of every quarter of the year. the table below shows the inventory counting records for last year. inventory end of quarter 1 700 cases end of quarter 2 1,050 cases end of quarter 3 920 cases end of quarter 4 800 cases 1. what's jiffy's cost of goods sold last year? 2. what's jiffy's average aggregate inventory value? 3. what's jiffy's inventory turnover last year? 4. what is the printing shop's weeks of supply last year?