the state budgetary body during budget preparation otherwise the restoration of the discretionary fund by the state would have been foreseen. In addition, the budget does not embrace equality in resources allocations within University County. There is widespread biasness in resources allocations, especially between departments and county regions. For instance, public safety employees are spared for during the layoff of employees. The Westside region mostly consisting of minority groups has been highly
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consisting of four activity cost pools seemed to be adequate. The activity cost pools and their activity measures appear below: Activity Cost Pool | Activity Measure | Activity for the Year | Cleaning carpets | Square feet cleaned (00s) | 20,000 hundred | | | square feet | Travel to jobs | Miles driven | 60,000 miles | Job support | Number of jobs | 2,000 jobs | Other (costs of idle capacity and organization-sustaining costs) | None | Not applicable | The total cost of operating the company
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Chapter three discusses Job-Order Cost System. According to Dr. Zaidi provided PowerPoint slides, Job-Order System Costing is used to produce large, unique, high cost items and are made to order. Particular cost order system is not used for mass production and most of the costs could be allocated to each job order. Using this cost system, costs are accumulated for each job order, so each job order has separate record that gets produced in the same factory; however, this cost system is not limited to be
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manufacturing costs may be assigned to products. And, some manufacturing costs—including the costs of idle capacity—may be excluded from product costs. An activity-based costing system typically includes a number of activity cost pools, each of which has its unique measure of activity. These measures of activity often differ from the allocation bases used in traditional costing systems. 7-2 When direct labor is used as an allocation base for overhead, it is implicitly assumed that overhead cost is directly
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account for 80% of total sales. The requested capital investment for Super was $200,000, and its production would take place after modifying an existing building, where Jell-O was manufactured and by using available capacity of Jell-O agglomerator. Cost for the key machine was not included in the project. On the basis of test market experience, once the product is introduced, it was expected to capture a 10% of dessert market share, 80% of which would come from growth in total dessert market share
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ignore the sunk cost of the planning team’s effort) The estimated project completion date is TUE 11/13/13 with duration of 127 days. After leveling and re-allocating work along the project line, the project got delayed for 3 days so that the completion day moved up to FRI 11/21/13 (total duration of 130 days). (MS Project 2007) 2. What is the total cost? How much of the total cost are labor costs? Capital costs? Total Cost: $98,500 + $844,980 = $943,480 Labor Cost: $ 844,980 (given
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Mozaffar Khan MIT Sloan School of Management Wilkerson Why is Wilkerson examining its costs now (what is the catalyst)? Its competitive environment: Declining overall profitability, price pressures on one product line, but apparent price inelasticity of demand for other product lines. How many overhead cost pools does Wilkerson currently have? One. Allocation base is direct labor dollars. Rate is 300%. Why do pumps have low profitability? They use more
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What are the major functions of an operating system? *An operting system manages hardware, runs applications, provides an interface for users, and stores, retrieves, and manipulates files. *It manages the hardware and software resources of the system. *It provides a stable, consistent way for applications to deal with the hardware without having to know all the details of the hardware. *System tool (programs) used to monitor computer performance,debug,problems, or maintain parts of the system
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NT1230 Fill-in the blank question 1-10 p. 144 Pg 1 Disk Redundancy Research Pg 2 1. By default, Windows 7 standers users are permitted to install Plug and Play devices only if their drivers are digitally signed. 2. The debilitating condition in which files are stored as clusters scattered all over a disk is called fragmentation. 3. The file system included in Windows 7 that is specifically designed for on flash drives called eXfat. 4. Technically speaking, you create partitions
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McDonald’s In 2003, the non-profit organization, BanTransFats.com (BTF), filed a federal lawsuit against McDonald’s for failing to reduce the amount of trans fat the company used in its cooking process. In 2002, McDonald’s had publicly announced that, by February 2003, they would voluntarily begin using an “improved cooking oil” to prepare their fried foods. Do so would significantly reduce the amount of trans fat in their products by 48% ("Mcdonald's exposed for," 2004). McDonald’s withdrew
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