As interest rates rise, bond prices fall, and as interest rates fall, bond prices rise. Because interest rate changes are uncertain, this premium is added as a compensation for this uncertainty. A) This is the rate for a short-term riskless security when inflation is expected to be zero.
B) This is the rate on a Treasury bill or a Treasury bond.
C) This premium is added when a security lacks marketability, because it cannot be bought and sold quickly without losing value.
D) Over the past several years, Germany, Japan, and Switzerland have had lower interest rates than the United States due to lower values of this premium.
E) This is the premium added as a compensation for the risk that an investor will not get paid in full.

Nichols inc. manufactures remote controls. currently the company uses a plantminuswide rate for allocating manufacturing overhead. the plant manager is considering switchingminusover to abc costing system and has asked the accounting department to identify the primary production activities and their cost drivers which are as follows: activities cost driver allocation rate material handling number of parts $5 per part assembly labor hours $20 per hour inspection time at inspection station $10 per minute the current traditional cost method allocates overhead based on direct manufacturing labor hours using a rate of $20 per labor hour. what are the indirect manufacturing costs per remote control assuming an method is used and a batch of 10 remote controls are produced? the batch requires 100 parts, 5 direct manufacturing labor hours, and 3 minutes of inspection time.