In their Portland, Oregon facility, Wavy Wood Works several types of wood bowls from coastal driftwood. To make a bowl the first step is to clean driftwood. Each piece of driftwood makes a single bowl. There is one cleaning machine. It takes 40 seconds to load each piece of wood and the machine can hold up to 35 pieces. Once the wood is cleaned, 15 skilled artisans carve the bowls, each one takes on average 100 minutes to produce each bowl. After carving bowls are finished with a stain. It takes 30 seconds to load each bowl into stain machine. The staining machine holds up to 35 bowls. Once all of the bowls are loaded, they are soaked for minutes. After staining, bowls are unloaded onto drying racks. There is plenty on the drying racks. a. What is the maximum capacity (bowls per hour) of this process? bowls per hour
b. Suppose Wavy wants to operate with the same number of bowls in each batch that is cleaned or stained. For example, if they clean in batches of 30, then they stain in batches of 30 as well. What batch size in bowls minimize their inventory while allowing the process at the maximum flow rate? bowls per batch

Stock a has a beta of 1.2 and a standard deviation of 20%. stock b has a beta of 0.8 and a standard deviation of 25%. portfolio p has $200,000 consisting of $100,000 invested in stock a and $100,000 in stock b. which of the following statements is correct? (assume that the stocks are in equilibrium.) (a) stock b has a higher required rate of return than stock a. (b) portfolio p has a standard deviation of 22.5%. (c) portfolio p has a beta equal to 1.0. (d) more information is needed to determine the portfolio's beta. (e) stock a's returns are less highly correlated with the returns on most other stocks than are b's returns.

Laval produces lamps and home lighting fixtures. its most popular product is a brushed aluminum desk lamp. this lamp is made from components shaped in the fabricating department and assembled in the assembly department. information related to the 22,000 desk lamps produced annually follows.direct materials $280,000direct labor fabricating department (8,000 dlh × $24 per dlh) $192,000assembly department (16,600 dlh × $26 per dlh) $431,600machine hours fabricating department $15,200mhassembly department $20,850mhexpected overhead cost and related data for the two production departments follow.fabricating assemblydirect labor hours 150,000dlh 295,000dlhmachine hours 161,000mh 128,000mhoverhead cost $400,000 430,000required1. determine the plantwide overhead rate for laval using direct labor hours as a base.2. determine the total manufacturing cost per unit for the aluminum desk lamp using the plantwide overhead rate.3. compute departmental overhead rates based on machine hours in the fabricating department and direct labor hours in the assembly department.4. use departmental overhead rates from requirement 3 to determine the total manufacturing cost per unit for the aluminum desk lamps.

In order to be thoughtful about the implementation of security policies and controls, leaders must balance the need to reduce with the impact to the business operations. doing so could mean phasing security controls in over time or be as simple as aligning security implementation with the business’s training events.