Priya Rahavy, M.D., is a general practitioner whose offices are located in the Lake Forest Professional Building. In the past, Dr. Rahavy has operated her practice with a nurse, a receptionist/secretary, and a part-time bookkeeper. Dr. Rahavy, like many small-town physicians, has billed her patients and their insurance companies from her own office. The part-time bookkeeper, who works 15 hours per week. is employed exclusively for this purpose. 
North Avenue Physician's Service Center has offered to take over all of Dr. Rahavy's billings and collections for an annual fee of $24,000. If Dr. Rahavy accepts this offer, she will no longer need the bookkeeper. The bookkeeper's wages and fringe benefits amount to $20 per hour, and the bookkeeper works 50 weeks per year. With all the billings and collections done elsewhere, Dr. Rahavy will have three additional hours available per week to see patients. She sees an average Of four patients per hour at an average fee of $30 per visit. Dr. Rahavy's practice is expanding, and new patients often have to wait several weeks for an appointment. She has resisted expanding her office hours or working more than 50 weeks per year. Finally, if Dr. Rahavy signs on with the center, she will no longer need to rent a records storage facility for $200 per month. 
a. Conduct a relevant cost analysis to determine if it is profitable to outsource the bookkeeping.
        
             
        
        
        
Answer: Participation strategy  
  
Explanation: Participation strategy refers to the strategy in which the management tries to make all the individuals in a group to collectively work for the accomplishment of a goal. It refers to associate the workers in an objective to give them a sense of superiority and belongingness towards that goal. 
In the given case, Gilbert is trying to make the employees to fell the awareness towards the project by taking their ideas ans suggestions into consideration. 
Hence from the above we can conclude that the correct option is E.
   
 
        
                    
             
        
        
        
Answer and Explanation:
Direct competition is a type of competition where two or more businesses offers the same kind of product and compete in the similar market.
The examples like dominos versus pizza hut in terms of food, HP versus Dell in terms of laptop
So in this examples they sell the same kind of products and compete each other
 
        
             
        
        
        
Answer:
Predetermined manufacturing overhead rate= $9.8 per machine hour
Explanation:
Giving the following information:
 Machine-hours= 50,000
Manufacturing overhead= $490,000 
To calculate the predetermined manufacturing overhead rate we need to use the following formula:
Predetermined manufacturing overhead rate= total estimated overhead costs for the period/ total amount of allocation base
Predetermined manufacturing overhead rate= 490,000/50,000= $9.8 per machine hour
 
        
             
        
        
        
Answer: <u>"b. Price is greater than long-run average cost."</u> is NOT characteristic of long-run equilibrium for a perfectly competitive firm.
Explanation: In the long term the company will produce the output level at which long-run average cost is at its minimum.
Where the price is equal to the long-run marginal cost and the long-run average cost.