When a company shifts from a traditional cost system in which manufacturing overhead is applied based on direct labor-hours to an activity-based costing system with batch-level and product-level costs, the unit product costs of high volume products typically decrease whereas the unit product costs of low volume products typically increase.

Betty contracted with scooby’s skate store to deliver a pair of skates to jake for his birthday. scooby’s owner was going on a trip and delegated the delivery of the skates to brian. brian failed to make delivery.can jake sue brian for breach of contract, as he was not a party to the original contract? explain your answer. brian was not a party to the original contract. why would a court hold him responsible for failing to make delivery? if you do not think a court would hold him responsible, explain your answer. can jake sue scooby’s skates for breach of contract? explain your answer.