In his new employee orientation training, Fabian heard Meredith, his new accounting supervisor, explain, "At Williams Corporation, we do not use traditional cost accounting. Rather, we use activity-based costing, or ABC. According to ABC, we costs according to what our employees do, rather than what the company spends."

In a fixed-term, level-payment reverse mortgage, sometimes called a reverse annuity mortgage, or ram, a lender agrees to pay the homeowner a monthly payment, or annuity, and expects to be repaid from the homeowner’s equity when he or she sells the home or obtains other financing to pay off the ram. consider a household that owns a $150,000 home free and clear of mortgage debt. the ram lender agrees to a $100,000 ram for 10 years at 6 percent. assume payments are made annually, at the beginning of each year to the homeowner. calculate the annual payment on the ram.