Gould Corporation uses the following activity rates from its activity-based costing to assign overhead costs to products: Activity Cost Pool Activity Rate Setting up batches $ 59.76 per batch Processing customer orders $ 73.08 per customer order Assembling products $ 4.45 per assembly hour Data concerning two products appear below: Product K91B Product F65O Number of batches 93 64 Number of customer orders 43 57 Number of assembly hours 497 904 How much overhead cost would be assigned to Product K91B using the activity-based costing system?

Pear co.’s income statement for the year ended december 31, as prepared by pear’s controller, reported income before taxes of $125,000. the auditor questioned the following amounts that had been included in income before taxes: equity in earnings of cinn co. $ 40,000 dividends received from cinn 8,000 adjustments to profits of prior years for arithmetical errors in depreciation (35,000) pear owns 40% of cinn’s common stock, and no acquisition differentials are relevant. pear’s december 31 income statement should report income before taxes of

Zara, a global retail and apparel manufacturer based in spain that has successfully implemented this idea by having a continuous flow of new products that are typically limited in supply. zara has created a system that draws its clientèle into its stores, on average, 17 times per year as compared to 4 times per year for most stores. how is zara using it to gain competitive advantage? what specific technologies are used by zara to maintain this advantage over its competition?

Many years ago, sprint telecommunications aired an advertisement intended to demonstrate the clarity of reception sprint customers could expect. the ad showed a rancher, who had used a different company, complaining that he had ordered 100 oxen from his supplier and instead received 100 dachshunds. the mix-up was probably due to the presence of in the communication process.