Turner, a billing executive, goes directly above his immediate boss, ally, to charlie for permission to take his lunch break 30 minutes earlier. charlie, believing the request is reasonable, approves it, only to find out later that the other two people in turner's department had also rescheduled their lunch breaks. thus, the department would be totally vacant from 12: 30 to 1 o'clock. ally, the bypassed manager, would have known about the other rescheduled lunch breaks. this situation best describes (a) the problem with circumcenting the scalar principle. (b) the exception principle. (c) the acceptance theory. (d) the problem with delegation of authority. (e) centralization in an organization.

The cook corporation has two divisions--east and west. the divisions have the following revenues and expenses: east west sales $ 603,000 $ 506,000 variable costs 231,000 300,000 traceable fixed costs 151,500 192,000 allocated common corporate costs 128,600 156,000 net operating income (loss) $ 91,900 $ (142,000 ) the management of cook is considering the elimination of the west division. if the west division were eliminated, its traceable fixed costs could be avoided. total common corporate costs would be unaffected by this decision. given these data, the elimination of the west division would result in an overall company net operating income (loss)

(a) what do you think will happen if the price of non-gm crops continues to rise? why? (b) what will happen if the price of non-gm food drops? why?

Analyzing and computing accrued warranty liability and expense waymire company sells a motor that carries a 60-day unconditional warranty against product failure. from prior years' experience, waymire estimates that 2% of units sold each period will require repair at an average cost of $100 per unit. during the current period, waymire sold 69,000 units and repaired 1,000 units. (a) how much warranty expense must waymire report in its current period income statement? (b) what warranty liability related to current period sales will waymire report on its current period-end balance sheet? (hint: remember that some units were repaired in the current period.) (c) what analysis issues must we consider with respect to reported warranty liabilities?