Identify one concept from the Build Your Proficiency diagnostic from Chapters 5 and 6 that you scored lowest in. How might this concept be important to your personal finances? Why would you want to know more about this? Your friend is hoping to buy a home in the next few years. What should your friend know about the process of finding and paying for a new home? Then consider what you learned in the Wk 3 Learning Path video, “Demonstration Problem Video 6.5: Calculating an Affordable Home Price” in WileyPLUS. How would your friend determine what is affordable?
Knowing a credit score will be used in most credit decisions, what advice would you offer about how to build and maintain a positive credit history?
The Five C’s may be used in major credit decisions. Which two do you think would be most important? Why?
In the Wk 3 Learning Path, watch “Which is Better–Buying or Leasing a Car?” in WileyPLUS. Based on what you learned about car loans and leasing, which option would you choose for your next car? Why?

Zachary company produces commercial gardening equipment. since production is highly automated, the company allocates its overhead costs to product lines using activity-based costing. the costs and cost drivers associated with the four overhead activity cost pools follow: activities unit level batch level product level facility level cost $ 64,800 $ 27,730 $ 15,000 $ 154,000 cost driver 2,400 labor hrs. 47 setups percentage of use 11,000 units production of 780 sets of cutting shears, one of the company’s 20 products, took 240 labor hours and 7 setups and consumed 15 percent of the product-sustaining activities. required: (a) had the company used labor hours as a company wide allocation base, how much overhead would it have allocated to the cutting shears? (b) how much overhead is allocated to the cutting shears using activity-based costing? (c) compute the overhead cost per unit for cutting shears first using activity-based costing and then using direct labor hours for allocation if 780 units are produced. if direct product costs are $150 and the product is priced at 30 percent above cost for what price would the product sell under each allocation system? (d) assuming that activity-based costing provides a more accurate estimate of cost, indicate whether the cutting shears would be over- or underpriced if direct labor hours are used as an allocation base. explain how over-or undercosting can affect vaulker's profitability. (e) comment on the validity of using the allocated facility-level cost in the pricing decision. should other costs be considered in a cost- plus pricing decision? if so, which ones? what costs would you include if you were trying to decide whether to accept a special order?