Your company, johnson farm products, has decided to expand its traditional business serving farm owners in order to include home gardeners in its customer base. this change is not met with enthusiasm by the sales personnel who have had good long-term relationships with area farmers. you know that the change will be difficult to implement if you cannot overcome the resistance of the sales personnel and obtain their cooperation. you have brought in the local extension agent to explain demographics and the changing nature of the area in which you live. the method for overcoming resistance that you have chosen is ) education and communicationb) participationc) negotiationd) manipulation and cooptatione) coercion

The cutting department of cassel company has the following production and cost data for july. production costs 1. transferred out 12,300 units. beginning work in process $0 2. started 3,900 units that are 60% materials 62,856 complete as to conversion labor 12,622 costs and 100% complete as manufacturing overhead 23,100 to materials at july 31. materials are entered at the beginning of the process. conversion costs are incurred uniformly during the process. determine the equivalent units of production for (1) materials and (2) conversion costs. materials conversion costs total equivalent units of production link to text link to text compute unit costs. (round unit costs to 2 decimal places, e. g. 2.25.) materials $ conversion costs $ link to text link to text prepare a cost reconciliation schedule. (round unit costs to 2 decimal places, e. g. 2.25 and final answers to 0 decimal places, e. g. 1,225.) cost reconciliation costs accounted for transferred out $ work in process, july 31 materials $ conversion costs total costs $

What do you think: would it be more profitable to own 200 shares of penny’s pickles or 1 share of exxon? why do you think that?

Fortress international, a large conglomerate, procures a few component parts from external suppliers and also manufactures some of the key raw materials in its own subsidiaries. aside from this, the company does not solely depend on outside distributors to reach its customers. in fact, it has its own retail stores to distribute its products. in this scenario, which of the following alternatives to vertical integration is fortress international applying? a. concentric integration b. taper integration c. horizontal integration d. conglomerate integration