Plywood, while not the most pleasing wood to look at, has become an incredibly important building material in house construction. it is flexible, inexpensive, and strong. its strength is due to layers of thin wood glued on top of each other with the grain of each layer making a right angle with the grain of the layer below it. this way of layering the sheets of wood makes plywood difficult to break. according to the passage, the arrangement of the layers of thin wood explains plywood's: a. strengthb. costc. attractivenessd. flexibility

While information systems can be used to gain a strategic advantage, they have inherent risks. hershey foods, for example, crippled its halloween sales when its complex is system failed to support its supply and inventory needs during peak production season. this is an example of which specific is risk

Harwood company uses a job-order costing system that applies overhead cost to jobs on the basis of machine-hours. the company's predetermined overhead rate of $2.50 per machine-hour was based on a cost formula that estimates $240,000 of total manufacturing overhead for an estimated activity level of 96,000 machine-hours. required: 1. assume that during the year the company works only 91,000 machine-hours and incurs the following costs in the manufacturing overhead and work in process accounts: compute the amount of overhead cost that would be applied to work in process for the year and make the entry in your t-accounts. 2a. compute the amount of underapplied or overapplied overhead for the year and show the balance in your manufacturing overhead t-account. 2b. prepare a journal entry to close the company's underapplied or overapplied overhead to cost of goods sold.

Suppose that two countries, britain and the u. s. produce just one good - beef. suppose that the price of beef in the u. s. is $2.80 per pound, and in britain it is £3.70 per pound. according to ppp theory, what should the $/£ spot exchange rate be? suppose the price of beef is expected to rise to $3.10 in the u. s. and to £4.65 in britain. what should be the one year forward $/£ exchange rate?