Whitman Printing has contracts to complete weekly supplements required by forty-six customers. For the year 20X5, manufacturing overhead cost estimates total $840,000 for an annual production capacity of 12 million pages. For 2010, Whitman Printing decided to evaluate the use of additional cost pools. After analyzing manufacturing overhead costs, it was determined that the number of design changes, setups, and inspections are the primary manufacturing overhead cost drivers. The following information was gathered during the analysis:

Cost Pool Manufacturing overhead costs Activity
Design changes $120,000 200 design changes
Setups 640,000 4,000 setups
Inspections    80,000 16,000 inspections
Total manufacturing overhead costs $840,000

During 2010, two customers, Money Managers and Hospital Systems, are expected to use the following printing services:

Activity Money Managers Hospital Systems
Pages 60,000 76,000
Design changes 10 2
Setups 20 10
Inspections 30 38

When costs are assigned using the single cost driver, number of pages printed, then Hospital Systems will ___?

a. contribute too little to profits, and Wallace Printing will not want to accept additional work from the company.
b. Will likely seek to do business with competitors
c. Is grossly under billed for the job, while other jobs will be unfairly over billed.
d. Is fairly billed because resources are allocated uniformly to all jobs.

The beach dude (bd) employs a legion of current and former surfers as salespeople who push its surfing-oriented products to various customers (usually retail outlets). this case describes bd's sales and collection process. each bd salesperson works with a specific group of customers throughout the year. in fact, they often surf with their customers to try out the latest surf gear. the bd salespeople act laid-back, but they work hard for their sales. each sale often involves hours of surfing with their customers while the customers sample all the latest surf wear. because bd makes the best surfing products, the customers look forward to the visits from the bd salespeople. and they often buy a lot of gear. each sale is identified by a unique invoice number and usually involves many different products. customers pay for each sale in full within 30 days, but they can combine payments for multiple sales. bd manages its clothing inventory by item (e.g., xl bd surfer logo t-shirts), identified by product number, but it also classifies the items by clothing line (the lines are differentiated by price points as well as the intended use of the clothing, e.g., surfing products, casual wear, . draw a uml class diagram that describes the beach dudes sales and collection process.b. using microsoft access, implement a relational database from your uml class diagram. identify at least three fields per table.c. describe how you would use the relational database to determine the beach dude’s accounts receivable.

Highland company produces a lightweight backpack that is popular with college students. standard variable costs relating to a single backpack are given below

The uptowner just paid an annual dividend of $4.12. the company has a policy of increasing the dividend by 2.5 percent annually. you would like to purchase shares of stock in this firm but realize that you will not have the funds to do so for another four years. if you require a rate of return of 16.7 percent, how much will you be willing to pay per share when you can afford to make this investment?