14) Prada produces several lines of shirts. The factory is highly automated and uses an activity-based costing system to allocate overhead costs to its various products. During the upcoming period, the company expects to produce 72,000 units. The costs and cost drivers associated with four activity cost pools are given below: ACTIVITIES: UNIT LEVEL BATCH LEVEL PRODUCT LEVEL FACILITY LEVEL Cost $30,000 $8,000 $15,000 $36,000 Cost driver 12,000 labor hrs 200 set ups % of use 72,000 units Production of 20,000 units of its popular red shirt required 3,000 labor hours and 75 setups and consumed one-third of the product sustaining activities. What amount of unit-level costs will be allocated to the product

Suppose that electricity producers create a negative externality equal to $5 per unit. further suppose that the government imposes a $5 per-unit tax on the producers. what is the relationship between the after-tax equilibrium quantity and the socially optimal quantity of electricity to be produced?

Describe what fixed costs and marginal costs mean to a company.

Suppose that the u.s. dollars-mexican pesos exchange rate is fixed by the u.s. and mexican governments. assume also that labor is mobile between the united states and mexico due to low transportation costs.which of the following situations is likely to happen as a result of a simultaneous increase in the demand for u.s. goods and decrease in the demand for mexican goods? (pick mexican unemployment rate increases, and the country undergoes bad economic times for a sustained u.s. unemployment rate increases, and the country undergoes bad economic times for a sustained mexican unemployment rate rises at first, but it soon drops as unemployed mexicans move to the united states for mexican unemployment rate rises at first, but then it drops as mexican pesos depreciate against u.s. dollars.