Garden Variety Flower Shop uses 750 clay pots a month. The pots are purchased at $2 each. Annual carrying cost per pot are estimated to be 30 percent of the cost and ordering costs are $20 per order. The manager has been using an order size of 1500 flower pots.

a. What additional annual cost is the shop incurring by staying with this order size?

b. Other than cost savings, what benefit would using the optimal order quantity yield?

Nichols inc. manufactures remote controls. currently the company uses a plantminuswide rate for allocating manufacturing overhead. the plant manager is considering switchingminusover to abc costing system and has asked the accounting department to identify the primary production activities and their cost drivers which are as follows: activities cost driver allocation rate material handling number of parts $5 per part assembly labor hours $20 per hour inspection time at inspection station $10 per minute the current traditional cost method allocates overhead based on direct manufacturing labor hours using a rate of $20 per labor hour. what are the indirect manufacturing costs per remote control assuming an method is used and a batch of 10 remote controls are produced? the batch requires 100 parts, 5 direct manufacturing labor hours, and 3 minutes of inspection time.

What is the key to success in integrating both lethal and nonlethal activities during planning? including stakeholders once a comprehensive operational approach has been determined knowing the commander's decision making processes and "touch points" including stakeholders from the very beginning of the design and planning process including the liaison officers (lnos) in all the decision points?

Differentiate between the trait, behavioral, and results-based performance appraisal systems, providing an example where each would be most applicable.