A firm has three shops with a total of 80 televisions. An order is received from the county government for 70 sets to be delivered to four schools. The transport shops to schools are tabulated below together with
available stocks in the shops,
School
A
School
B
School
C
School
D
Available TV
Sets
Shop I 2.00 4.00 1.00 6.00 40
Shop II 4.00 2.00 3.00 3.00 20
Shop III 1.00 5.00 5.00 2.00 20
Total 20 30 15 5
(i) Work out the initial feasible cost using the three methods i. e. North West Corner Cell Method,
Vogel Approximation Method and The Least Cost Cell Method.
(ii) Use the allocation from the least cost method to calculate the shadow cost and set up the final
Tableau that shows the allocation that optimizes the delivery cost.

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.

On january 1, vermont corporation had 40,000 shares of $10 par value common stock issued and outstanding. all 40,000 shares has been issued in a prior period at $20.00 per share. on february 1, vermont purchased 3,750 shares of treasury stock for $24 per share and later sold the treasury shares for $21 per share on march 1. the journal entry to record the purchase of the treasury shares on february 1 would include a credit to treasury stock for $90,000 debit to treasury stock for $90,000 credit to a gain account for $112,500 debit to a loss account for $112,500

Which of the following is least likely to a team solve problems together