At the beginning of the period, the Cutting Department budgeted direct labor of $129,000, direct materials of $155,000 and fixed factory overhead of $14,000 for 7,800 hours of production. The department actually completed 11,100 hours of production. The appropriate total budget for the department, assuming it uses flexible budgeting, is: a. $418,154
b. $298,000
c. $424,077
d. $303,923

Which of the following statements concerning an organization's strategy is true? a. cost accountants formulate strategy in an organization since they have more inputs about costs. b. businesses usually follow one of two broad strategies: offering a quality product at a high price, or offering a unique product or service priced lower than the competition. c. a good strategy will always overcome poor implementation. d. strategy specifies how an organization matches its own capabilities with the opportunities in the marketplace to accomplish its objectives.

Identify and describe a variety of performance rating scales that can be used in organizations including graphical scales, letter scales, and numeric scales.

Aproduction line has three machines a, b, and c, with reliabilities of .96, .86, and .85, respectively. the machines are arranged so that if one breaks down, the others must shut down. engineers are weighing two alternative designs for increasing the line’s reliability. plan 1 involves adding an identical backup line, and plan 2 involves providing a backup for each machine. in either case, three machines (a, b, and c) would be used with reliabilities equal to the original three. a. compute overall system reliability under plan 1. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability b. compute overall system reliability under plan 2. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability c. which plan will provide the higher reliability? plan2plan1