Job-order costs are most useful for
a. controlling indirect costs of future production.
b. estimating the overhead costs included in transfer prices.
c. determining inventory valuation using lifo.
d. determining the cost of a specific project.

suppose, due to favorable weather, the crop in 2012 is 330 tons. in percentage terms, how much bigger is the 2012 crop over the 2007-2011 average?

The management of a private investment club has a fund of $250,000 earmarked for investment in stocks. to arrive at an acceptable overall level of risk, the stocks that management is considering have been classified into three categories: high risk (x), medium risk (y), and low risk (z). management estimates that high risk stocks will have a rate of return of 15%/year; medium risk stocks, 10%/year; and low risk stocks, 6%/year. the amount of money invested in low risk stocks is to be twice the sum of the amount invested in stocks of the other two categories. if the investment goal is to have a rate of return of 9% on the total investment, determine how much the club should invest in each type of stock. (assume that all the money available for investment is invested.)

Adecision is made at the margin when each alternative considers