Questions persist about environmental quality and development, and this is critical in understanding sustainability of development, especially for for transition countries. Broadly speaking, two schools of thought address environmental quality and development. One of the two schools of thought:. a. believes that the environment has a negative impact on development.
b. believes that development and environmental improvement occur simultaneously.
c. believes that there is no relationship between the environment and development.
d. believes that the environment has a negative impact on sustainable development.

Your project team’s recommendations to increase productivity have been approved and your team is now working on an implementation plan. in order to accomplish the plan, several subject matter experts from various parts of the organization have been brought in to assist. you have noticed friction and conflict among team members. some of the disagreement and opposition on your team supports the achievement of team goals and objectives. this type of conflict can be described as:

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.

3. describe the purpose of the sec. (1-4 sentences. 2.0 points)