What is absolute advantage? a. the ability to produce a good or service at a lower opportunity cost than other producers. b. the ability to produce more of a good or service than competitors using the same amount of resources. c. the ability to use all available resources to produce output. d. the gain from consuming a product whose benefit is greater than its cost. e. the gain from selling a product for more than it costs to produce that product.

Ida sidha karya company is a family-owned company located on the island of bali in indonesia. the company produces a handcrafted balinese musical instrument called a gamelan that is similar to a xylophone. the gamelans are sold for $860. selected data for the company’s operations last year follow: units in beginning inventory 0 units produced 320 units sold 285 units in ending inventory 35 variable costs per unit: direct materials $ 135 direct labor $ 355 variable manufacturing overhead $ 30 variable selling and administrative $ 15 fixed costs: fixed manufacturing overhead $ 64,000 fixed selling and administrative $ 27,000 the absorption costing income statement prepared by the company’s accountant for last year appears below: sales $ 245,100 cost of goods sold 205,200 gross margin 39,900 selling and administrative expense 31,275 net operating income $ 8,625 required: 1. under absorption costing, how much fixed manufacturing overhead cost is included in the company's inventory at the end of last year? 2. prepare an income statement for last year using variable costing. what is the amount of the difference in net operating income between the two costing methods?

Wallis company manufactures only one product and uses a standard cost system. the company uses a predetermined plantwide overhead rate that relies on direct labor-hours as the allocation base. all of the company's manufacturing overhead costs are fixed—it does not incur any variable manufacturing overhead costs. the predetermined overhead rate is based on a cost formula that estimated $2,886,000 of fixed manufacturing overhead for an estimated allocation base of 288,600 direct labor-hours. wallis does not maintain any beginning or ending work in process inventory.

Drag the tiles to the correct boxes to complete the pairs.(there's not just one answer)match each online banking security practice with the pci security requirement that mandates it.1. encrypting transfer of card data2. installing a firewall3. installing antivirus software4. assigning unique ids and user namesa. vulnerability management programb. credit card data protectionc. strong access controlsd. secure network