Answer:
<u>B. extended product line length</u>
Explanation:
- The product line is a pricing strategy refers to as the pricing line extension and its purpose is to attract new customers, who may or may not be familiar with the current standard product line.
- Thus It adds a higher quality to the current products, considered as trading and forward stretch. Various features include the price lining, bundle pricing, bait pricing, leader pricing.
- Supermarkets like Walmart and amazon can often apply stretch top product lines so s to often grade there products to ensure that all markets are covered as to gain the maximum interest from customers.
Answer:
$41,960
Explanation:
Direct costs are costs that are specific to a certain product, service or in this case, department or business unit. They are not shared with other products, services or business units.
The direct costs allocated to the Cosmetics Department are:
- Cosmetics Department sales commissions--Northridge Store $5,300
- Cosmetics Department cost of sales--Northridge Store $32,400
- Cosmetics Department manager's salary--Northridge Store $4,260
- total $41,960
Answer: None of the other answers are correct, because all of these variance combinations are possible.
Explanation:
All of the above combinations are possible.
A company can have an Unfavorable labor rate variance and a favorable labor efficiency variance meaning that the actual labor rate was more than the budget rate but the budgeted labor Efficiency rate was more than the actual rate.
A company can also have an Unfavorable labor efficiency variance and a favorable material quantity variance meaning that even though labor Efficiency was not satisfactory, less materials were still used than were budgeted for.
There is also a possibility of a Favorable labor rate variance and unfavorable total labor variance and a Favorable labor efficiency variance and favorable material quantity variance can also happen together when actual direct labour and material quantity variance are both less than the budgeted amount.
