"budgeted performance is a better criterion than past performance for judging managers." do you agree? why?
a. disagreelong dashneither budgeted nor past performances are a good judge of managers. budgeted performances only tell you how the managers expect the company to perform and past performances may include inefficiencies that we do not want to take into consideration.
b. agreelong dashthe budgets are based on the same figures every year, and it is the best way to judge whether the company keeps at a consistent level. inefficiencies are not included as the budget starts "fresh" every year with the same figures.
c. disagreelong dashpast performances better gauge how a manager has performed. the budgets can only tell you how they expect to perform, not their actual results.
d. agreelong dashbecause inefficiencies included in past results can be detected and eliminated in budgeting. also, future conditions may be expected to differ from the past, and these can also be factored into budgets.

You decide that structural changes must be made at holden evans immediately to deal with the additional product lines. equipment and employees will have to be moved around to optimize production of all of the products in house. this shouldn't be too difficult because many of the vitamins and supplements are produced using similar processes. you have several options available to facilitate this process. which of the following methods do you think is the best choice? select an option from the choices below and click submit. because the changes may result in the loss of several key employees, you hire outside consultants who specialize in hr law. this way any employee terminations will not result in lawsuits. you select an outside consulting firm that your company has never worked with before, but it has a reputation for using new technology in product lines that are similar to yours. you select several trusted managers to facilitate the transition of operations from overseas. these individuals can gather information and also smooth any rough spots that may occur.

The federal reserve's organization while all members of the federal reserve board of governors vote at federal open market committee (fomc) meetings, only of the regional bank presidents are members of the fomc. the federal reserve's role as a lender of last resort involves lending to which of the following financially troubled institutions? u. s. banks that cannot borrow elsewhere governments in developing countries during currency crises u. s. state governments when they run short on tax revenues the federal reserve's primary tool for changing the money supply is . in order to decrease the number of dollars in the u. s. economy (the money supply), the federal reserve will government bonds.

Archangel manufacturing calculated a predetermined overhead allocation rate at the beginning of the year based on a percentage of direct labor costs. the production details for the year are given below. calculate the manufacturing overhead allocation rate for the year based on the above data. (round your final answer to two decimal places.) a) 42.42% b) 257.14% c) 235.71% d) 1, 206.90% archangel production details.