Answer:
<u>Income statement according to the absorption costing</u>
Sales 2,600,000
Less Cost of Goods Sold
Opening Stock 0
Add Cost of Goods Manufactured
Direct materials 1,218,000
Direct labor 522,000
Variable factory overhead 87,000
Fixed factory overhead 130,500
Less Closing Stock (1,957,500/4,350)×350 (157,500) 1,800,000
Gross Profit 800,000
Less Period Costs :
Selling and administrative expenses:
Variable selling and administrative expenses (60,000)
Fixed selling and administrative expenses (25,000)
Net Income 715,000
Explanation:
<em>Product/Manufacturing Cost - Absorption Costing = Direct Materials + Direct Labor + Variable Overheads + Fixed Overheads</em>
<em>Period Cost - Absorption Costing = All Non - Manufacturing Costs</em>
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Answer:
Factors to consider:
1. Specialisation role
2. Complexity of sales process
3.Tenure
4.Geographical coverage
5. Sales Representative leadership
6. Support network
7. Internal Bureaucracy
8. Value add of managers
Factors not to consider;
1. Market share
2. Production process
3. Distribution process
4. Personal affiliation, race or religion
Explanation:
When considering a company's span of control, which simply means the number of junior staff a manager should manage, it is important to note factors relating to geographical coverage, a wide coverage can create difficulties in supervision to a manager. Consequently reducing the span of control.
Specialisation also help in ensuring the manager is an expert in the area he or she supervise. Experienced manager with good understanding of the tasks, good knowledge of the workers and good relationships with the workers, will be able to supervise more workers
The complexity of a sale process can affect a manager's supervision performance. if the sale process for example require an online payment to a final user who may not be physically available. Supervising such sales requires adequate training.
Other factors like; Tenure, Sales Representative leadership, Support network, Internal Bureaucracy, Value add of managers are paramount in determining span of control. However, market share, production process, distribution process and personal affiliation, race and religion should not affect the span of control.
Explanation:
The long-running debate between the ‘rational design’ and ‘emergent process’ schools of strategy formation has involved caricatures of firms' strategic planning processes, but little empirical evidence of whether and how companies plan. Despite the presumption that environmental turbulence renders conventional strategic planning all but impossible, the evidence from the corporate sector suggests that reports of the demise of strategic planning are greatly exaggerated. The goal of this paper is to fill this empirical gap by describing the characteristics of the strategic planning systems of multinational, multibusiness companies faced with volatile, unpredictable business environments. In-depth case studies of the planning systems of eight of the world's largest oil companies identified fundamental changes in the nature and role of strategic planning since the end of the 1970s. The findings point to a possible reconciliation of ‘design’ and ‘process’ approaches to strategy formulation. The study pointed to a process of planned emergence in which strategic planning systems provided a mechanism for coordinating decentralized strategy formulation within a structure of demanding performance targets and clear corporate guidelines. The study shows that these planning systems fostered adaptation and responsiveness, but showed limited innovation and analytical sophistication
Answer:
Answer for the question = the threshold went down by = $9000.
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passed in December, 2017, eliminated any personal exemptions ($4,050 per preson) but increased the standard deduction to $12,000 for single filers and $24,000 for joint filers beginning in 2018 compared to $6,350 and $12,700 respectively in 2017. Ignoring any other changes made by the new tax law (and there are other important changes such as expansion of a child tax credit), what would the threshold for having any taxable income for a family of two adults and three dependent children be in 2018 compared to 2017? (Hint: the threshold in 2017 was the standard deduction for a married couple with five personal exemptions. "
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Explanation:
Answer: <em>Option (d) is the correct answer.</em>
Ben view the investment by government as a way to jump start a weak economy, i.e. investment by government will allow industries to hire new employees or workforce in order to meet production demand. Thereby increasing government spending through investing in construction of road and bridge, Ben assumes that the state will intervene in market to help revive a weak economy.
