Imagine that you are planning a fundraising party for after the symphony, and you need a life-size grand piano cake. or, you are a developer proposing a new shopping center to a group of investors, and you want to serve a cake shaped like an architectural rendition of the center. is this impossible? no, you just need to contact cecilia villaveces cakes. she actually built a life-size grand piano for a gala in macon, georgia. you can expect to pay anywhere from $75 to $10,000 for one of cecilia's artistic creations, depending on the complexity of design and size. she uses only the best ingredients, and no two cakes are ever quite alike. although many factors determine the prices charged by cecilia villaveces cakes, the two primary determinants are: a) the demand for the good and the cost to the sellerb) demand by the consumer and perceived qualityc) stage of the product life cycle and costs to the consumersd) costs of manufacturing and distribution costse) distribution and promotion strategies used by the cake maker

White company has two departments, cutting and finishing. the company uses a job-order costing system and computes a predetermined overhead rate in each department. the cutting department bases its rate on machine-hours, and the finishing department bases its rate on direct labor-hours. at the beginning of the year, the company made the following estimates: department cutting finishing direct labor-hours 6,000 30,000 machine-hours 48,000 5,000 total fixed manufacturing overhead cost $ 264,000 $ 366,000 variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour $ 2.00 " variable manufacturing overhead per direct labor-hour " $ 4.00 required: 1. compute the predetermined overhead rate for each department. 2. the job cost sheet for job 203, which was started and completed during the year, showed the following: department cutting finishing direct labor-hours 6 20 machine-hours 80 4 direct materials $ 500 $ 310 direct labor cost $ 108 $ 360 using the predetermined overhead rates that you computed in requirement (1), compute the total manufacturing cost assigned to job 203. 3. would you expect substantially different amounts of overhead cost to be assigned to some jobs if the company used a plantwide predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor-hours, rather than using departmental rates?

Corporations with suppliers, vendors, and customers all over the globe are referred to as : a) global corporations b) international corporations c) multinational corporations d) multicultural corporations

The following information is for alex corp: product x: revenue $12.00 variable cost $4.50 product y: revenue $44.50 variable cost $9.50 total fixed costs $75,000 what is the breakeven point assuming the sales mix consists of two units of product x and one unit of product y?