Answer:
(B) the macroeconomy
Explanation:
The condition of the macroeconomy would exert the most influence of a firm's decision to hire more workers. As economic growth increases and demand grows, the firm is likely to hire more workers to meet increasing demand for its goods. On the other hand, in an economic recession, the firm is likely to hire less and even lay off its existing workers as demand for its goods reduces.
Option A is incorrect as a firm would not hire more workers even at low wage levels if the economy is in a recession. Option C is incorrect as the level of a firm's income would likely not be considered in its hiring decision if demand for its goods was very high. Option D is incorrect as the household income would likely not be considered by the firm in its hiring decision.
Answer:
Explanation:
This could be due a number of factors.
1 Externality effect
2 There could also be market failure, when property rights are not properly defined.
Externality is the effect of a third party on a property right, when all parties cannot come to an agreeable resolution on properties this could lead to inefficient use of land.
Also when the property rights are not put in place its difficult to come to a resolution that satisfies all parties.
Answer:
8.14
Explanation:
The Rate of Return is 8.14 from my calculations which you can find in the attached file.
Now since the Rate of return is 8.14. Which is less than MARR of 12%, it shows that investment is not good.
Answer:
Using Traditional allocation method
Allocation rate per unit
=<u> Budgeted overhead</u>
Budgeted direct labour hours
Brass
Overhead allocation rate
= <u>$47,500</u>
700 hours
= $67.86 per direct labour hour
Gold
= <u>$47,500</u>
1,200 hours
= $39.58 per direct labour hour
Using activity-based costing
Brass
Allocation rate for material cost pool
= <u>$12,500</u>
400
= $31.25 per material moved
Gold
Allocation rate for material cost pool
= <u>$12,500</u>
100
= $125 per material moved
Brass
Allocation rate for machine set-up pool
= <u>$35,000</u>
400
= $87.50
Gold
Allocation rate for machine set-up pool
= <u>$35,000</u>
600
= $58.33
Explanation:
Using traditional allocation method, the overheads for material cost pool and machine set-up pool will be added. The overhead allocation rate per unit is the division of total overhead by the direct labour hours for each product.
Using activity-based costing, the material cost pool overhead will be divided by the material moved for each product in order to obtain allocation rate for each product.
The allocation rate for machine set-up pool is obtained by dividing the machine set-up overhead by the number of machine set-up for each product.
