The law firm of Barnes & Cohen purchased a new $17,600 copier. Copying costs will be shared by the purchasing, accounting, and information technology departments since those are the only departments that will have access to the machine. The company has decided to allocate the copying cost based on the number of copies made by each department. The sales person who sold the copier to the attorneys expects it will generate 1,000,000 copies. The manager of each department has estimated the number of copies that his or her department will make over the life of the copier:

Department CopiesPurchasing 150,000Accounting 450,000Information Technology 200,000How much overhead will be allocated each time a copy is made by the accounting department?A) 2.2 centsB) 3.9 centsC) 1.76 centsD) None of the above

The winston company estimates that the factory overhead for the following year will be $1,250,000. the company has decided that the basis for applying factory overhead should be machine hours, which is estimated to be 50,000 hours. the total machine hours for the year were 54,300. the actual factory overhead for the year were $1,375,000. determine the over- or underapplied amount for the year.

Galwaysc electronics makes two products. model a requires component a and component c. model b requires component b and component c. new versions of both models are released each year with updated versions of all components. all components are sourced overseas, and abc contracts annually for a quantity of each component before seeing that year’s demand. components are only assembled into finished products once demand for each model is known. for the coming year, alwaysc’s purchasing manner has proposed ordering 500,000 units of component a, 630,000 of component b, and 1,000,000 units of component c. her boss has asked why she has recommended purchasing so much of components a and b when alwaysc will not have enough of component c to fully use all of the inventory of a and b. what factors might the purchasing manager cite to explain her recommended order? explain your reasoning.

What do you recommend adam do to increase production in a business setting that does not seem to value high productivity?