The scarcity problem: a. persists only because countries have failed to achieve continuous full employment. b. persists because economic wants exceed available productive resources. c. has been solved in all industrialized nations. d. has been eliminated in affluent societies such as the united states and canada.\

In canada, the reference base period for the cpi is 2002. by 2012, prices had risen by 21.6 percent since the base period. the inflation rate in canada in 2013 was 1.1 percent. calculate the cpi in canada in 2013. hint: use the information that “prices had risen by 21.6 percent since the base period” to find the cpi in 2012. use the inflation rate formula (inflation is the growth rate of the cpi) to find cpi in 2013, knowing the cpi in 2012 and the inflation rate. the cpi in canada in 2013 is round up your answer to the first decimal. 122.9 130.7 119.6 110.5

You work as the sales manager for a company that sells office supplies to businesses of all sizes. because the profit margins are razor-thin, you need to ensure that you are getting the very best prices on paper, pencils, pens, post-it notes, and other office supplies from the manufacturers. when reviewing the quarterly profit statement, you realize that your costs are higher than they should be, and you trace the higher costs back to an employee who has been lax about getting competitive bids to ensure the lowest prices. when you conduct your research to determine the reason for the higher costs, and take action to bring those costs back down, in which of the key management processes are you taking part?

Dallas company uses a job order costing system. the company's executives estimated that direct labor would be $4,800,000 (160,000 hours at $30/hour) and that factory overhead would be $1,400,000 for the current period. at the end of the period, the records show that there had been 190,000 hours of direct labor and $1,100,000 of actual overhead costs. using direct labor hours as a base, what was the predetermined overhead rate? (round your answer to two decimal places.)