HELP PLEASE ASA You are the CEO of a Middle Eastern food corporation looking to expand into the Southeast Asian markets. Your research so far has noted the prominence of ASEAN, whose members include Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Laos, Myanmar, and Cambodia. It is a huge market, with a GDP of around $2.4 trillion and with a population of around 600 million. Yet your enthusiasm is tempered by stories of the problems with trading in the region. You need to look deeper into the issues to see if they have substance.

Questions:

1). It is claimed that opportunities are an illusion and China dominates the region. Is this true?

2). Corruption, shadow markets, and bribery are rife across the region. Is this also the case?

Alocal barnes and noble bookstore ordered 80 marketing books but received 60 books. what percent of the order was missing?

Samantha is interested in setting up her own accounting firm and wants to specialize in the area of accounting that has experienced the most significant growth in recent years. which area of accounting should she choose as her specialty? samantha should choose as her specialty.

Zachary company produces commercial gardening equipment. since production is highly automated, the company allocates its overhead costs to product lines using activity-based costing. the costs and cost drivers associated with the four overhead activity cost pools follow: activities unit level batch level product level facility level cost $ 64,800 $ 27,730 $ 15,000 $ 154,000 cost driver 2,400 labor hrs. 47 setups percentage of use 11,000 units production of 780 sets of cutting shears, one of the company’s 20 products, took 240 labor hours and 7 setups and consumed 15 percent of the product-sustaining activities. required: (a) had the company used labor hours as a company wide allocation base, how much overhead would it have allocated to the cutting shears? (b) how much overhead is allocated to the cutting shears using activity-based costing? (c) compute the overhead cost per unit for cutting shears first using activity-based costing and then using direct labor hours for allocation if 780 units are produced. if direct product costs are $150 and the product is priced at 30 percent above cost for what price would the product sell under each allocation system? (d) assuming that activity-based costing provides a more accurate estimate of cost, indicate whether the cutting shears would be over- or underpriced if direct labor hours are used as an allocation base. explain how over-or undercosting can affect vaulker's profitability. (e) comment on the validity of using the allocated facility-level cost in the pricing decision. should other costs be considered in a cost- plus pricing decision? if so, which ones? what costs would you include if you were trying to decide whether to accept a special order?