The fire department of a certain city received an appropriation in the amount of $13,000,000 for the fiscal year ended december 31, 2016. during the month ended january 31, 2017, the following transactions occurred: (a) purchase orders were issued in the amount of $480,000; (b) purchase orders, related to (a) above, were filled in the amount of $380,000; the related invoice amount was $368,000; invoices were paid in the amount of $350,000; (c) salaries were accrued and paid in the amount of $575,000; (d) the appropriation was increased in amount of $100,000. the amount available for the fire department as of january 31, 2017 would be:

Medtronic, inc., is a medical technology company that competes for customers with st. jude medical s.c., inc. james hughes worked for medtronic as a sales manager. his contract prohibited him from working for a competitor for one year after leaving medtronic. hughes sought a position as a sales director for st. jude. st. jude told hughes that his contract with medtronic was unenforceable and offered him a job. hughes accepted. medtronic filed a suit, alleging wrongful interference. which type of interference was most likely the basis for this suit? did it occur here? medtronic, inc., is a medical technology company that competes for customers with st. jude medical s.c., inc. james hughes worked for medtronic as a sales manager. his contract prohibited him from working for a competitor for one year after leaving medtronic

Asmartphone manufacturing company uses social media to achieve different business objectives. match each social media activity of the company to the objective it the company achieve.

Activity-based costing (abc) is not truly a cost collection mechanism as much as it is an inventory valuation method. the main purpose for implementing an activity-based cost system is to try to overcome some of the cost distortions that occur in traditional costing from product differences when there are variations in size and complexity. however, one of the disadvantages of utilizing abc is that the additional information gathering necessary to implement costing with that level of detail might be beyond the reach of some companies with resource or financial constraints. with this in mind, what kinds of industries or companies do you think would benefit most from using activity-based costing and why? in designing or modifying an accounting system to capture appropriate costs for abc, what considerations do you think would need to be made?