Smith Company has several current product lines. In the past, the company applied the lower of cost and net realizable value method to individual inventory items. The company wants to make the process less time consuming and is exploring alternatives. What alternatives does the company have

Homestead jeans co. has an annual plant capacity of 65,000 units, and current production is 45,000 units. monthly fixed costs are $54,000, and variable costs are $29 per unit. the present selling price is $42 per unit. on november 12 of the current year, the company received an offer from dawkins company for 18,000 units of the product at $32 each. dawkins company will market the units in a foreign country under its own brand name. the additional business is not expected to affect the domestic selling price or quantity of sales of homestead jeans co. a. prepare a differential analysis dated november 12 on whether to reject (alternative 1) or accept (alternative 2) the dawkins order. if an amount is zero, enter zero "0". for those boxes in which you must enter subtracted or negative numbers use a minus sign.

Avx home entertainment, inc., recently began a “no-hassles” return policy. a sample of 500 customers who recently returned items showed 400 thought the policy was fair, 32 thought it took too long to complete the transaction, and the rest had no opinion. on the basis of this information, make an inference about customer reaction to the new policy. (round your answers to 1 decimal place.)

If temper company, a manufacturer of mattresses, was considering moving its production facilities to china but decided against it because the additional costs of shipping the mattresses back to the u. s. would offset the cost savings associated with moving the production facilities, the increased costs associated with shipping would be an example ofanswers: learning-curve economies. diseconomies of scale. economies of scale. competitive advantages.