A company is interested in developing a quarterly aggregate production plan but they are not sure if a level strategy with backorders or a chase strategy would be better. They have the following information available regarding their production operation: Hiring cost (per unit increase) $40
Firing cost (per unit decrease) $80
Inventory cost (per unit) $40
Stockout cost (per unit) $150
Production (labor) cost (per unit) $30
Subcontracting cost(per unit) $60
Previous quarter's production 1300
Previous quarter's ending inventory (units) 100

Quarter forecasts are 6000, 3000, 4000 and 5000, respectively. Suppose that you want to use a chase plan. What is firing cost of quarter 2?

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.

The following are the current month's balances for abc financial services, inc. before preparing the trial balance. accounts payable $ 10,000 revenue 6,000 cash 3,000 expenses 17,500 furniture 10,000 accounts receivable 14,000 common stock ? notes payable 6,500 what amount should be shown for common stock on the trial balance? a. $48.000b. $12.500c. $27.000d. $28.000

Ann chovies, owner of the perfect pasta pizza parlor, uses 20 pounds of pepperoni each day in preparing pizzas. order costs for pepperoni are $10.00 per order, and carrying costs are 4 cents per pound per day. lead time for each order is three days, and the pepperoni itself costs $3.00 per pound. if she were to order 80 pounds of pepperoni at a time, what would be the average inventory level?