Afarmer divided his piece of land into 4 equivalent groups. the quality of the soil is the same across the 4 groups of land. he planted the same crop in all 4 groups of land and recorded the yield of the crop in all 4 groups for a 4 week period. is the study observational or experimental? if it is an experiment, what is the controlled factor?

Throne technical university is looking for three people to work in its plant-biology laboratory. the hiring manager is finding that the most suitable job candidates live in other countries and are not willing to move to the city where the university is located. which situation is the university facing? a. lack of flexible workforce b. surpluses in labor talent c. an appearance of quota systems d. deficits in minimum wage demands

Activity-based costing (abc) is not truly a cost collection mechanism as much as it is an inventory valuation method. the main purpose for implementing an activity-based cost system is to try to overcome some of the cost distortions that occur in traditional costing from product differences when there are variations in size and complexity. however, one of the disadvantages of utilizing abc is that the additional information gathering necessary to implement costing with that level of detail might be beyond the reach of some companies with resource or financial constraints. with this in mind, what kinds of industries or companies do you think would benefit most from using activity-based costing and why? in designing or modifying an accounting system to capture appropriate costs for abc, what considerations do you think would need to be made?

Which of the following functions finds the highest value of selected inputs? a. high b. hvalue c. max