Alex Chunn Inc. has the following financial data for 2019 for its three regional divisions: Historical Cost Current Cost RegionOperating IncomeNet Book ValueGross Book Value Replacement CostLiquidation Value North Atlantic$65,000 $250,000 $450,000 $990,000 $350,000 Mid Atlantic 40,000 290,000 310,000 380,000 445,000 South Atlantic 30,000 100,000 180,000 650,000 980,000 Required: a. Calculate return on sales (ROS) for each division for 2019. The sales in the North Atlantic, Mid Atlantic, and South Atlantic regions are $2,350,000, $1,450,000, and $500,000, respectively. b. Calculate asset turnover (AT) and return on investment (ROI) for each of the four measures of investment.

Email viruses are typically launched by people who modify header information to hide their identity. brightmail's enrique salem says that in the future, your email reader will authenticate the sender before putting hte message in your inbox. that way, you will know the source of all the emails you read. alan nugent of novell says, "i'm kind of a fan of eliminating anonymity if that is the price for security." will eliminating anonymity make computers more secure?

Bandar industries berhad of malaysia manufactures sporting equipment. one of the company’s products, a football helmet for the north american market, requires a special plastic. during the quarter ending june 30, the company manufactured 35,000 helmets, using 22,500 kilograms of plastic. the plastic cost the company $171,000. according to the standard cost card, each helmet should require 0.6 kilograms of plastic, at a cost of $8 per kilogram. 1. what is the standard quantity of kilograms of plastic (sq) that is allowed to make 35,000 helmets? 2. what is the standard materials cost allowed (sq x sp) to make 35,000 helmets? 3. what is the materials spending variance? 4. what is the materials price variance and the materials quantity variance?

Suppose that a paving company produces paved parking spaces (q) using a fixed quantity of land (t) and variable quantities of cement (c) and labor (l). the firm is currently paving 1,000 parking spaces. the firm's cost of cement is $3 comma 600.003,600.00 per acre covered (c) and its cost of labor is $35.0035.00/hour (w). for the quantities of c and l that the firm has chosen, mp subscript upper c baseline equals 60mpc=60 and mp subscript upper l baseline equals 7mpl=7. is this firm minimizing its cost of producing parking spaces?