1.4 Sage Lorimer owns a boutique that sells jewelry made by her husband and other local artists. She is considering expanding the business by opening a second store. The current store has 1200 square feet of retail space and 400 square feet of space for administrative offices. For the new store she would like to double the retail space and triple the administrative space of the current store. At the time the current shop was purchased, retail space sold for $75 per square foot and general office space cost $30 per square foot. The cost indexes at the time were 153 for retail space and 120 for office space. The costs indexes are now 140 for retail space and 132 for office space. Estimated the cost for Sage to purchase a second store at this time is equal to

Anne is comparing savings accounts. one account has an interest rate of 1.2 percent compounded yearly, and one account has an interest rate of 1.2 percent compounded monthly. which account will earn more money in interest? the account that earns 1.2 percent compounded yearly the account that earns 1.2 percent compounded monthly

What is product differentiation, and how can it be achieved ? what is product positioning? what conditions would head to head product positioning be appropriate?

White company has two departments, cutting and finishing. the company uses a job-order costing system and computes a predetermined overhead rate in each department. the cutting department bases its rate on machine-hours, and the finishing department bases its rate on direct labor-hours. at the beginning of the year, the company made the following estimates: department cutting finishing direct labor-hours 6,000 30,000 machine-hours 48,000 5,000 total fixed manufacturing overhead cost $ 264,000 $ 366,000 variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour $ 2.00 " variable manufacturing overhead per direct labor-hour " $ 4.00 required: 1. compute the predetermined overhead rate for each department. 2. the job cost sheet for job 203, which was started and completed during the year, showed the following: department cutting finishing direct labor-hours 6 20 machine-hours 80 4 direct materials $ 500 $ 310 direct labor cost $ 108 $ 360 using the predetermined overhead rates that you computed in requirement (1), compute the total manufacturing cost assigned to job 203. 3. would you expect substantially different amounts of overhead cost to be assigned to some jobs if the company used a plantwide predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor-hours, rather than using departmental rates?