The consumer price index (cpi) is a measure of the change in the cost of goods over time. if 1982 is used as the base year of comparison in some country (cpiequals100 in 1982), then the cpi of 205.6 in 2006 would indicate that an item that cost $ 1.00 in 1982 would cost $ 2.06 in 2006 in this country. it is known that the cpi in this country has been increasing at an approximately linear rate for the past 30 years. a. use this information to determine a linear function for this data, letting x be the years since 1982. b. based on your function, what was the cpi in 2000? compare this estimate to the actual cpi of 181.3 for this country. c. how is the annual cpi changing?

Zachary company produces commercial gardening equipment. since production is highly automated, the company allocates its overhead costs to product lines using activity-based costing. the costs and cost drivers associated with the four overhead activity cost pools follow: activities unit level batch level product level facility level cost $ 64,800 $ 27,730 $ 15,000 $ 154,000 cost driver 2,400 labor hrs. 47 setups percentage of use 11,000 units production of 780 sets of cutting shears, one of the company’s 20 products, took 240 labor hours and 7 setups and consumed 15 percent of the product-sustaining activities. required: (a) had the company used labor hours as a company wide allocation base, how much overhead would it have allocated to the cutting shears? (b) how much overhead is allocated to the cutting shears using activity-based costing? (c) compute the overhead cost per unit for cutting shears first using activity-based costing and then using direct labor hours for allocation if 780 units are produced. if direct product costs are $150 and the product is priced at 30 percent above cost for what price would the product sell under each allocation system? (d) assuming that activity-based costing provides a more accurate estimate of cost, indicate whether the cutting shears would be over- or underpriced if direct labor hours are used as an allocation base. explain how over-or undercosting can affect vaulker's profitability. (e) comment on the validity of using the allocated facility-level cost in the pricing decision. should other costs be considered in a cost- plus pricing decision? if so, which ones? what costs would you include if you were trying to decide whether to accept a special order?