Suppose you are designing a marketing website and you would like it to be as user-friendly as possible. in particular, you do not want repeat customers to have to enter in their address, email, telephone number, and credit card data every time they make an online purchase. rather, you would like your website to recognize each customer by name every time he or she visits the website and to retrieve all the information about that customer automatically whenever he or she wishes to make a purchase. to achieve this goal, you would most likely use

a. cookies
b. portals
c. search engines
d. push technologies

Allen's office department manufactures computer desks in its​ moosejaw, saskatchewan, plant. the company uses activity based costing to allocate all manufacturing conversion costs​ (direct labour and manufacturing​ overhead). its activities and related data​ follow: ​(click the icon to view the activity areas and related​ data.) requirements 1. compute the​ per-unit manufacturing product cost of standard desks and unpainted desks. 2. premanufacturing​ activities, such as product​ design, were assigned to the standard desks at $ 5 each and to the unpainted desks at $ 2 each. similar analyses were conducted of postmanufacturing​ activities, such as​ distribution, marketing, and customer service. the postmanufacturing costs were $ 31 per standard and $ 26 per unpainted desk. compute the full product costs per desk. 3. which product costs are reported in the external financial​ statements? which costs are used for management decision​ making? explain the difference. 4. what price should allen's managers set for standard desks to earn a $ 52 profit per​ desk?