A successful proposal usually results in a contract! One of the goals of a business proposal is to persuade a potential customer/client to do business with you. In this assignment scenario you have been asked by your employer to draft a business proposal for your sales department. A business proposal is a document sent to a prospective client outlining the products or services you are offering and explaining why you are the best. (In this scenario you will decide what products/services your particular sales department is offering). Because you want to make a persuasive case there are a number of key questions your proposal must answer?

List three questions you feel are priority for your proposal and briefly explain why you selected them.

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.