Ajewelry firm buys semiprecious stones to make bracelets and rings. the supplier quotes a price of $9.00 per stone for quantities of 600 stones or more, $9.40 per stone for orders of 400 to 599 stones, and $9.90 per stone for lesser quantities. the jewelry firm operates 119 days per year. usage rate is 26 stones per day, and ordering costs are $57 a. if carrying costs are $2 per year for each stone, find the order quantity that will minimize total annual cost. (do not round intermediate calculations. round your final answer to the nearest whole number.) s order quantitystones b. if annual carrying costs are 28 percent of unit cost, what is the optimal order size? (do not round intermediate calculations. round your final answer to the nearest whole number.) optimal order size stones c. if lead time is 3 working days, at what point should the company reorder? (do not round intermediate calculations. round your final answer to the nearest whole number) reorder quantity stones

The amberssen specialty company is a chain of twelve retail stores that sell a variety of imported gift items, gourmet chocolates, cheeses, and wines in the toronto area. amberssen has an is staff of three people who have created a simple but effective information system of networked point-of-sale registers at the stores and a centralized accounting system at the company head- quarters. harry hilman, the head of amberssens is group, has just received the following memo from bill amberssen, sales director (and son of amberssen’s founder). harry—it’s time amberssen specialty launched itself on the internet. many of our competitors are already there, selling to customers without the expense of a retail storefront, and we should be there too. i project that we could double or triple our annual revenues by selling our products on the internet. i’d like to have this ready by - giving, in time for the prime holiday gift-shopping season. bill after pondering this memo for several days, harry scheduled a meeting with bill so that he could clarify bill’s vision of this venture. using the standard con- tent of a system request as your guide, prepare a list of questions that harry needs to have answered about this project.

Consider the market for gasoline. suppose that, in a competitive market without government regulations, the equilibrium price of gasoline is $3.00 per gallon, and employees at gas stations earn $17.50 per hour. complete the following table by indicating whether each of the statements is an example of a price ceiling or a price floor and whether it results in a shortage or a surplus or has no effect on the price and quantity that prevail in the market. statement price control effect the government has instituted a legal minimum price of $3.40 per gallon for gasoline. the government prohibits gas stations from selling gasoline for more than $3.40 per gallon. due to new regulations, gas stations that would like to pay better wages in order to hire more workers are prohibited from paying more than $14.50 per hour.

howard, fine, & howard is an advertising agency. the firm uses an activity-based costing system to allocate overhead costs to its services. information about the firm's activity cost pool rates follows: stooge company was a client of howard, fine, & howard. recently, 7 administrative assistant hours, 3 new ad campaigns, and 8 meeting hours were incurred for the stooge company account. using the activity-based costing system, how much overhead cost would be allocated to the stooge company account?