A firm's average cost increases as it increases its output by expanding its plant and hiring additional workers (its only inputs to production). The firm's owner blames the increase in per-unit costs on the law of diminishing marginal productivity. The owner's reasoning is: A. correct because some inputs are fixed in the long run. B. incorrect because economies of scale are present. C. correct because marginal productivity must decrease in the short run. D. incorrect because all inputs are varied in the example.

During the year, the delph company had no beginning or ending inventories and it started, completed, and sold only two jobs—job d-75 and job c-100. it provided the following information related to those two jobs: job d-75: molding fabrication total direct materials cost $ 375,000 $ 325,000 $ 700,000 direct labor cost $ 200,000 $ 160,000 $ 360,000 machine-hours 15,000 5,000 20,000 job c-100: molding fabrication total direct materials cost $ 300,000 $ 250,000 $ 550,000 direct labor cost $ 175,000 $ 225,000 $ 400,000 machine-hours 5,000 25,000 30,000delph had no overapplied or underapplied manufacturing overhead during the year. assume delph uses a plantwide overhead rate based on machine-hours.1-a. compute the predetermined plantwide overhead rate.1-b. compute the total manufacturing costs assigned to job d-70 and job c-200.1-c. if delph establishes bid prices that are 150% of total manufacturing costs, what bid price would it have established for job d-70 and job c-200? 1-d. what is delph's cost of goods sold for the year? assume delph uses departmental overhead rates based on machine-hours.2-a. compute the predetermined departmental overhead rates.2-b. compute the total manufacturing costs assigned to job d-70 and job c-200.2-c. if delph establishes bid prices that are 150% of total manufacturing costs, what bid price would it have established for job d-70 and job c-200? 2-d. what is delph's cost of goods sold for the year?

Which of these is an example of innovation?

Sue peters is the controller at vroom, a car dealership. dale miller recently has been hired as the bookkeeper. dale wanted to attend a class in excel spreadsheets, so sue temporarily took over dale's duties, including overseeing a fund used for gas purchases before test drives. sue found a shortage in the fund and confronted dale when he returned to work. dale admitted that he occasionally uses the fund to pay for his own gas. sue estimated the shortage at $450. what should sue do?