Doug is the vice president of product development for a corporation that makes flavored honey. doug proposes to the board that they approve three new products: chili-flavored honey, seaweed-flavored honey, and black-licorice honey. doug and his team have market tested the flavors, and they received positive reviews from focus groups. the board approves the flavors, which then fails miserably and cost the company thousands of dollars. if some shareholders sue the board for its decision to market the flavors, the board most likely will

Adamson company manufactures four lines of garden tools. as a result of an activity analysis, the accounting department has identified eight activity cost pools. each of the product lines is produced in large batches, with the whole plant devoted to one product at a time. classify each of the following activities or costs as either unit-level, batch-level, product-level, or facility-level. activities (a) machining parts. (b) product design. (c) plant maintenance. (d) machine setup. (e) assembling parts. (f) purchasing raw materials. (g) property taxes. (h) painting.