The Savvy Entrepreneurial Firm feature in Chapter 10 focuses on the manner in which biotech firms and large drug companies work together to bring pharmaceutical products to market. According to the feature, the most compelling partnerships are those that help entrepreneurial firms focus on what they do best, which is typically , and that allow them to tap their partners' complementary strengths and resources.

Baldwin has negotiated a new labor contract for the next round that will affect the cost for their product bold. labor costs will go from $7.91 to $8.41 per unit. in addition, their material costs have fallen from $13.66 to $12.66. assume all period costs as reported on baldwin's income statement remain the same. if baldwin were to pass on half the new costs of labor and half the savings in materials to customers by adjusting the price of their product, how many units of product bold would need to be sold next round to break even on the product?

Which of the following differentiates cost accounting and financial accounting? a. the primary users of cost accounting are the investors, whereas the primary users of financial accounting are the managers. b. cost accounting measures only the financial information related to the costs of acquiring fixed assets in an organization, whereas financial accounting measures financial and nonfinancial information of a company's business transactions. c. cost accounting measures information related to the costs of acquiring or using resources in an organization, whereas financial accounting measures a financial position of a company to investors, banks, and external parties. d. cost accounting deals with product design, production, and marketing strategies, whereas financial accounting deals mainly with pricing of the products.

Frolic corporation has budgeted sales and production over the next quarter as follows. the company has 4100 units of product on hand at july 1. 10% of the next months sales in units should be on hand at the end of each month. october sales are expected to be 72000 units. budgeted sales for september would be: july august september sales in units 41,500 53,500 ? production in units 45,700 53,800 58,150