The following costs are some of the costs incurred by Norwood Incorporated to produce and sell 1,000 units of one of their primary products: • Direct materials, $31,500. • Direct labor, $69,000. • Factory building rent, $8,500. • Factory maintenance salaries, $7,200. • Sales commissions, $10,800. • Shipping costs, $2,700. • Factory equipment lubrication supplies, $1,100. • Factory supervisor’s salary, $15,000. • Straight-line depreciation expense on factory equipment, $6,000. • Advertising campaign costs, $3,800. How much are the total fixed costs?

Galwaysc electronics makes two products. model a requires component a and component c. model b requires component b and component c. new versions of both models are released each year with updated versions of all components. all components are sourced overseas, and abc contracts annually for a quantity of each component before seeing that year’s demand. components are only assembled into finished products once demand for each model is known. for the coming year, alwaysc’s purchasing manner has proposed ordering 500,000 units of component a, 630,000 of component b, and 1,000,000 units of component c. her boss has asked why she has recommended purchasing so much of components a and b when alwaysc will not have enough of component c to fully use all of the inventory of a and b. what factors might the purchasing manager cite to explain her recommended order? explain your reasoning.

Amanufacturer has paid an engineering firm $200,000 to design a new plant, and it will cost another $2 million to build the plant. in the meantime, however, the manufacturer has learned of a foreign company that offers to build an equivalent plant for $2,100,000. what should the manufacturer do?

How did the change in textile production affect employment in spinning and weaving for adults and children?