Use your selected company or your current work environment to identify at least one cost or expense that would fit under each of the following categories: Variable
Fixed
Mixed
Step
Would your company be more likely to benefit from using a manufacturing cost hierarchy or a customer cost hierarchy for determining cost drivers?

The typical consumer's food basket in the base year 2015 is as follows: 30 chickens at $4 each 10 hams at $5 each 10 steaks at $8 each a chicken feed shortage causes the price of chickens to rise to $5.00 each in the year 2016. hams rise to $7.00 each, and the price of steaks is unchanged. a. calculate the change in the "cost-of-eating" index between 2015 and 2016. year cost of the basket 2015 $ 2016 $ instructions: enter your responses rounded to one decimal place. the official cost-of-eating index has by %. b. suppose that consumers are completely indifferent between two chickens and one ham. for this example, how large is the substitution bias in the official "cost-of-eating" index? the in the cost-of-eating index is %. the of inflation in the cost of eating reflects substitution bias.

Saeed needs money to purchase tools, basic office supplies, parts to refurbish equipment, accounting software, and legal fees. believing saeed's business will be a success, an investor invests $5,000 to saeed open his business. in return, saeed agrees to repay the investor the $5,000 plus 17 percent of the profits of the business. calculate the return on investment for the investor if saeed's business makes $7,000 in profit as a total return of the business in its first year.

Which of the following is a problem for the production of public goods?