MC Qu. 97 K Company estimates that overhead costs for... K Company estimates that overhead costs for the next year will be $3,648,000 for indirect labor and $960,000 for factory utilities. The company uses direct labor hours as its overhead allocation base. Of 96,000 direct labor hours are planned for this next year, how much overhead would be assigned to a product requiring 5 direct labor hours

Afactory owner wants his workers to produce as many widgets as they can so he pays his workers based on how many widgets they produce. however, in order to make sure that the workers do not rush and produce a large number of poorly made widgets, he checks the widgets at random at various stages of their manufacture. if a defect is found in a widget, the pay of the entire section of the factory responsible for that defect is docked. how is this factory owner seeking to solve the agency conflict problem in this case?

Reqwest llc agrees to sell one hundred servers to social media networks, inc. the servers, which social media networks expressly requires to have certain amounts of memory, are to be shipped “f.o.b. social media networks distribution center in tampa, fl.” when the servers arrive, social media networks rejects them and informs reqwest, claiming that the servers do not conform to social media networks’ memory requirement. a few hours later, the servers are destroyed in a fire at social media networks’ distribution center. will reqwest succeed in a suit against social media networks for the cost of the goods?

Reliability and validity reliability and validity are two important considerations that must be made with any type of data collection. reliability refers to the ability to consistently produce a given result. in the context of psychological research, this would mean that any instruments or tools used to collect data do so in consistent, reproducible ways. unfortunately, being consistent in measurement does not necessarily mean that you have measured something correctly. to illustrate this concept, consider a kitchen scale that would be used to measure the weight of cereal that you eat in the morning. if the scale is not properly calibrated, it may consistently under- or overestimate the amount of cereal that’s being measured. while the scale is highly reliable in producing consistent results (e.g., the same amount of cereal poured onto the scale produces the same reading each time), those results are incorrect. this is where validity comes into play. validity refers to the extent to which a given instrument or tool accurately measures what it’s supposed to measure. while any valid measure is by necessity reliable, the reverse is not necessarily true. researchers strive to use instruments that are both highly reliable and valid.