Answer:
a. Maturing of a product
When the product reaches its maturity stage, its sales volume reduces considerably. This would require different marketing strategies like product enhancement, price changing or developing new designs, etc.
b. Technology innovation in the manufacturing process
This will cause many changes in the strategy as technological innovation would reduce manual labor cost. Also, the organization would need skilled employees to deal with the new technology.
- Cost cutting is instituted.
- Product changes decrease.
- Design compromises are instituted.
- Labor Skills decrease
- Optimum capacity may be achieved
- Manufacturing process stabilizes
Answer:
a. multiplies the activity-based overhead rates per cost driver by the number of cost drivers expected to be used per product.
Explanation:
Costing is the measurement of the cost of production of goods and services by assessing the fixed costs and variable costs associated with each step of production.
Generally, an activity-based costing uses multiple cost pools such as manufacturing cost or customer services and multiple cost drivers such as direct labor hours worked, number of changes used in engineering department, etc.
Cost pool is simply the amount of money spent by a firm on a particular activity.
Hence, to assign overhead costs to each product, the company multiplies the activity-based overhead rates per cost driver by the number of cost drivers expected to be used per product.
In activity-based costing, the activity rate for an activity cost pool is calculated by using the following formula;
Activity rate = total overhead cost/activity for the activity cost pool.
Answer:
Cash flows from investing activities is $653,200.
Explanation:
XYZ Company
Statement of cash flows (extract)
Proceed from sale of equipment ($80,000 - $34,000) $46,000
Purchase of vehicle $103,000
Proceed from sale of land $410,000
Proceed from sale of long-term investments in stock $94,200
Cash flows from investing activities $653,200
Answer:
Please kindly check explaination for the details.
Explanation:
a.
Decision variables:
Let
X1 = no of units of product X1
X2 = no of units of product X2
X3 = no of units of product X3
Objective function is to maximize profits
Max Z = 20X1 + 6X2 + 8X3
Constraints:
8X1 + 2X2 + 3X3 <= 800
4X1 + 3X2 <= 480
2X1 + X3 <= 320
X1, X2, X3>=0
b.
please see attachment for the excel solutions.
c.
X1 = 0
X2 = 160
X3 = 160
Z = 2240
Answer:
B. False
Explanation:
<em>Total Product offer </em>is every aspect of a product which the customer evaluates before buying.
From strategic marketing viewpoint, the customer may evaluate the product on both the tangible and intangible attributes.
An example of this is the iPhone by Apple. On tangible level, the product itself, the packaging and others are tangible attributes that a customer may evaluate. On intangible level, the brand name, perceived benefits, convenience, purchase services, and many other factors are part of the iPhone as the intangible attributes that the customer will evaluate.
As a marketer, one should think and talk in the language of customers- let it be from either tangible or intangible point of view.
