The Maxit Corporation has a standard costing system in which variable manufacturing overhead is assigned to production on the basis of standard machine-hours. The following data are available for July: Actual variable manufacturing overhead cost incurred: $11,310 Actual machine-hours worked: 1,600 hours Variable overhead rate variance: $1,710 U Total variable overhead spending variance: $2,310 U The standard number of machine-hours allowed for July production is closest to:

Clonex labs, inc., uses the weighted-average method in its process costing system. the following data are available for one department for october: percent completed units materials conversion work in process, october 1 53,000 90 % 65 % work in process, october 31 29,000 74 % 52 % the department started 381,000 units into production during the month and transferred 405,000 completed units to the next department. required: compute the equivalent units of production for october.

Identify an organization with the low-total-cost value proposition and suggest at least two possible measures within each of the four balanced scorecard perspectives.

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?