Answer:
Resources are limited.
Production requires resources.
Everyone wants or needs goods.
Explanation:
Different regions provide different resources that people can use for their business. People in that region need to understand the type of resources that are available for them and produce the goods that can be sustained by the available resource.
This scarcity means that acquiring resources require a certain amount of capital. Since people do not unlimited capital, they have to be picky with their consumption/production to ensure the ones with highest priority are fulfilled first.
On top of that, everyone wants or needs goods. Meaning that in order to obtain a certain resources, people will have to face competition. As the competition become more fierce, the sacrifice that is needed to obtain a certain product is increased. This is also why they have to watch out which product they should choose to consume.
Answer:
1. Which of the excluded items represent ongoing costs of running the business and which are one-time "special" costs?
it depends on the company and the actual transactions, e.g. equity based compensation might be a one time special cost because it occurred only once and is doubtful that it happens again. But if the company regularly rewards its top managers with this type of compensation, then it is an ongoing cost. E.g. Tesla awarded a HHHHUUUUUUGGGGGGGEEEEEEE bonus to Elon Musk (worth hundreds of millions) but it was a one time event. While many companies use equity compensation on a regular basis.
Severance and related employee "rebalancing" costs generally take place when a company fires a lot of people because it is cutting down some division or product line. Hopefully, they should never happen, and if they do, it should be only a one time event.
Fees paid to consultants and interest expenses are ongoing costs that will probably occur in the future.
Losses related to the abandonment of excess facility space and a facility fire should be one time events. It would be really bad for them to keep happening (same as severance and rebalancing costs)
Answer:
Fixed cost is the one which remains fixed and doesn't changes within a range of level of activity changes which includes Factory property taxes (doesn't changes with furniture manufacturing), accounting staff salaries (doesn't changes with furniture manufacturing), sales office rent (doesn't changes with furniture manufacturing), Sales manager salary and Depreciation on factory equipment.
On the other hand, the variable cost changes with the change in the level of activity and this includes fabric for seats (greater usage for greater amount of seats), assembly labor and sales commissions paid.
Period cost is the cost that is associated with the passage of time and increases with the passage of time and is not dependent on level of activity.
This includes Factory property taxes, accounting staff salaries, sales office rent, Sales manager salary and Depreciation on factory equipment.
Product cost is the cost that is associated with costs that are directly linked with manufacturing of the product. This includes all the variable overheads, specific fixed cost and variable costs. The examples include Fabric for seats and Assembly labor.
Answer:
Overhead budget:
Variable overhead= 274,400
Fixed overhead= 180,000
Total overhead= $454,400
Explanation:
Giving the following information:
Production= 4,900 units
Each unit requires 5 hours of direct labor at a rate of $16 per hour.
Variable factory overhead is budgeted to be 70% of direct labor cost
Fixed factory overhead is $180,000 per month.
First, we need to determine the direct labor cost:
Direct labor cost= (4,900*5)*16= $392,000
Now, we can calculate the overhead budget:
Overhead budget:
Variable overhead= (0.7*392,000)= 274,400
Fixed overhead= 180,000
Total overhead= $454,400
Answer:
<em>Fully amortizing payment</em>
Explanation:
Fully amortizing payment<em> corresponds to a regular loan payment whereby, when payments are made by the borrower in accordance with the amortization schedule of the loan, the loan will be fully paid off by the end of its term. </em>
When the loan is a set-rate loan, the same dollar amount for each fully amortizing fee.
