An advantage of fifo is that it assigns the most recent costs to cost of goods sold and does a better job of matching current costs with revenues on the income statement.

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P8-4b dropping unfavorable division based on the following analysis of last year's operations of groves, inc., a financial vice president of the company believes that the firm's total net income could be increased by $160,000 if its design division were discontinued. (amounts are given in the thousands of dollars.) required provide answers for each of the following independent situations: a. assuming that total fixed costs and expenses would not be affected by discontinuing the design division, prepare an analysis showing why you agree or disagree with the vice president. b. assume that the discontinuance of the design division will enable the company to avoid 30% of the fixed portion of cost of services and 40% of the fixed operating expenses allocated to the design division. calculate the resulting effect on net income. c. assume that in addition to the cost avoidance in requirement (b), the capacity released by discontinuance of the design division can be used to provide 6,000 new services that would have a variable cost per service of $60 and would require additional fixed costs totaling $68,000. at what unit price must the new service be sold if groves is to increase its total net income by $180,000?

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Food goblin supermarkets use both cashiers and baggers to serve customers at check out. during the first 6 hours of each workday (monday-friday), 3 cashiers and 2 baggers serve approximately 23 customers per hour. a cashier and a bagger who require approximately 4 minutes at checkout and 3 minutes at bagging serve each customer. a. how many employees should food goblin supermarket schedule if it requires a 12 percent capacity cushion? food goblin supermarket should schedule nothing cashier(s). (enter your response rounded up to the nearest whole number.)