As a lead in a successful consulting firm, you are about to visit with a COO (chief operating officer) of a high profile electronics manufacturing firm. The COO has asked you to help fine-tune the recently installed ABC system. The controller set up the ABC system by allocating overhead on the basis of four drivers: direct labor dollars, machine hours, kilowatt hours, and number of units produced. The COO would like a critique of the current system, as well as any other potential benefits that could be achieved with an ABC system. FIRST, provide the COO a careful explanation of how ABC works. THEN, provide feedback on the existing ABC system. FINALLY, explain how ABC can help a company achieve their strategic goals

Garrett is an executive vice president at samm hardware. he researches a proposal by a larger company, maximum hardware, to combine the two companies. by analyzing past performance, conducting focus groups, and interviewing maximum employees, garrett concludes that maximum has poor profit margins, sells shoddy merchandise, and treats customers poorly. what actions should garrett and samm hardware take? a. turn down the acquisition offer and prepare to resist a hostile takeover. b. attempt a friendly merger and use managerial hubris to improve results at maximum. c. welcome the acquisition and use knowledge transfer to impart sam hardware's management practices. d. do nothing; the two companies cannot combine without samm hardware's explicit consent.

What is the minimum educational requirement for a pediatric psychopharmacologist? a. md b. phd c. bachelors in medicine d. masters in medicine e. psyd

Make or buy eastside company incurs a total cost of $120,000 in producing 10,000 units of a component needed in the assembly of its major product. the component can be purchased from an outside supplier for $11 per unit. a related cost study indicates that the total cost of the component includes fixed costs equal to 50% of the variable costs involved. a. should eastside buy the component if it cannot otherwise use the released capacity? present your answer in the form of differential analysis. use negative sign represent a net disadvantage answer; otherwise do not use negative signs with your answers. cost from outside supplier $answer variable costs avoided by purchasing answer net advantage (disadvantage) to purchase alternative $answer b. what would be your answer to requirement (a) if the released capacity could be used in a project that would generate $50,000 of contribution margin? use negative sign represent a net disadvantage answer; otherwise do not use negative signs with your answers.