Macon vitamins sells a variety of vitamins and herbal supplements to small health food stores. macon purchases the vitamins and supplements from leading manufacturers. identify each of the following costs incurred by macon vitamins in terms of its cost behavior—variable, fixed, mixed, or step.

a. vitamin c tablets
b. president’s salary
c. sales commissions ($1.00 per case)
d. straight line depreciation on office equipment
e. shipping (billed in 100-pound increments)
f. advertising
g. telephone charges (monthly fee of $35 plus long distance charges)

Azster inc. recorded sales revenue for the year that ended december 31, 2014 as $67,000. interest revenue of $5,300 and expenses of $14,000 were also recorded for the same period. what is aster’s net profit or loss?

Standardization is associated with which of the following management orientations? a) ethnocentric orientation b) polycentric orientation c) regiocentric orientation d) geocentric orientation

Galwaysc electronics makes two products. model a requires component a and component c. model b requires component b and component c. new versions of both models are released each year with updated versions of all components. all components are sourced overseas, and abc contracts annually for a quantity of each component before seeing that year’s demand. components are only assembled into finished products once demand for each model is known. for the coming year, alwaysc’s purchasing manner has proposed ordering 500,000 units of component a, 630,000 of component b, and 1,000,000 units of component c. her boss has asked why she has recommended purchasing so much of components a and b when alwaysc will not have enough of component c to fully use all of the inventory of a and b. what factors might the purchasing manager cite to explain her recommended order? explain your reasoning.