Aaron nance is a freshman in college who has not yet decided on his major. he is thinking about majoring in operations management and is concerned about job opportunities in this field. which of the following statements about jobs for operations management majors is most accurate? if he majors in operations management, aaron will
a have limited job opportunities because operations management positions are only available in the slowly growing manufacturing sector.
b. acquire skills and knowledge that are valuable to firms in both the manufacturing and service sectors.
c. have plenty of job offers, but they will mainly be in low wage positions in the service sector.
d. find plenty of employment opportunities in the government and education, but not very many in the
private sector.

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.