Plankton inc, determines that it needs to train 200 employees on using a new software application, jason, the training administrator, is investigating options to find the one that will meet the company's needs within the budget available. he determines that no one at plankton knows enough about the software to provide the training. which plan would be most likely to achieve training objectives at the lowest cost? - passing out user manuals and hoping employees can learn enough on their own - having jason deliver the training based on the content in the user manual - delaying the training program until the company has more money in the budget having employees participate in a general outside training course for the software - hiring external consultants to create training specially tailored to the company

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.

Jaguar has full manufacturing costs of their s-type sedan of £22,803. they sell the s-type in the uk with a 20% margin for a price of £27,363. today these cars are available in the us for $55,000 which is the uk price multiplied by the current exchange rate of $2.01/£. jaguar has committed to keeping the us price at $55,000 for the next six months. if the uk pound appreciates against the usd to an exchange rate of $2.15/£, and jaguar has not hedged against currency changes, what is the amount the company will receive in pounds at the new exchange rate?

Winston churchill's stamp collection was valued at $14 million when he died. at auction, it brought in only $4 million. what was it worth? why?