Lorraine belongs to a national consumer panel created by a market research company. she regularly receives samples of new products from a variety of firms and fills out questionnaires about the products. the national consumer panel lorraine is part of is engaged in:
a. premarket testing.
b. product launch.
c. test marketing.
d. product development.
e. concept testing

Doogan corporation makes a product with the following standard costs: standard quantity or hours standard price or rate direct materials 2.0 grams $ 7.00 per gram direct labor 1.6 hours $ 12.00 per hour variable overhead 1.6 hours $ 6.00 per hour the company produced 5,000 units in january using 10,340 grams of direct material and 2,320 direct labor-hours. during the month, the company purchased 10,910 grams of the direct material at $7.30 per gram. the actual direct labor rate was $12.85 per hour and the actual variable overhead rate was $5.80 per hour. the company applies variable overhead on the basis of direct labor-hours. the direct materials purchases variance is computed when the materials are purchased. the materials quantity variance for january is:

The food services division of cedar river amusement park inc. is studying the amount families who visit the amusement park spend per day on food and drink. a sample of 40 families who visited the park yesterday revealed they spent the following amounts: see worksheet 1 for data and answer the following questions: a. organize the data into a frequency distribution, using seven classes and 15 as the lower limit of the first class. what class interval did you select? b. what percent of families spent less than $45? c. what percent of families spent $55 or more? d. how many families spent from $65 to 74.99?

Wisconsin snowmobile corp. is considering a switch to level production. cost efficiencies would occur under level production, and after tax costs would decline by $36,000, but inventory would increase by $300,000. wisconsin snowmobile would have to finance the extra inventory at a cost of 13.5 percent.a. determine the extra cost or savings of switching over to level production. should the company go ahead and switch to level production? b how low would interest rates need to fall before level production would be feasible?