The Work in Process inventory account of a manufacturing company shows a balance of $2,600 at the end of an accounting period. T
he job cost sheets of the two uncompleted jobs show charges of $400 and $200 for direct materials, and charges of $300 and $500 for direct labor. From this information, it appears that the company is using a predetermined overhead rate, as a percentage of direct labor cost ($) of:
The mission of the institute is to promote agricultural science and to train manpower for agricultural development focusing on teaching, research and extension.
Imports create greater competition in the domestic marketplace.
Explanation:
Comparative advantage is defined as the ability of a company to produce goods at a lower opportunity cost than other competitors. They can now sell the goods at lower prices.
If the company in this scenario have competitive advantage in producing electronics then it is xheap for them to produce.
When they export electronics and import again, it can only mean that the imported electronics have a competitive edge that the company wants to take advantage of. For example higher quality than what is available locally.
The goal of any reasonable firm is to optimize its earnings. Providing incentives to the workers is one of the management methods to induce maximum effort from them in order to achieve the objective of the firm.In the present structure of employee settlement where the retail personnel is paid a fixed wage of $20 per hour, there's no reward for the retail sales staff to push more difficult for the sales and increase the profits. There is no penalty on them in case the sales go down and the profits are negatively affected.In the proposed worker compensation structure where each of the retail personnel is paid 1 percent of the shop's daily revenues over and above a fixed wage of $10 per hour, the staff is motivated to work harder to increase the sales and the profits of the firm. Each of the retail staff members then will be motivated by self-interest and devise methods to increase their productivity so that they can maximize their everyday compensation. Hence, by taking care of their self-interest, they will indirectly help in attaining the company's objective of maximizing its daily earnings to $25,000 per shop.
