Charles Berkle is the manager of Nogain Manufacturing and is interested in doing a cost of quality analysis. The following cost and revenue data are available for the most recent year ended December 31. Sales revenue $ 250,000 Cost of goods sold 140,000 Warranty expense 24,000 Inspection costs 11,000 Scrap and rework 7,800 Product returns due to defects 6,000 Depreciation expense 10,000 Machine maintenance expense 2,300 Wage expense 35,000 Machine breakdown costs 4,000 Estimated lost sales due to poor quality 5,000 a. Classify each of these costs into the four quality cost categories and prepare a cost of quality report for Nogain. b. What percentage of sales revenue is being spent on prevention and appraisal activities

Nichols inc. manufactures remote controls. currently the company uses a plantminuswide rate for allocating manufacturing overhead. the plant manager is considering switchingminusover to abc costing system and has asked the accounting department to identify the primary production activities and their cost drivers which are as follows: activities cost driver allocation rate material handling number of parts $5 per part assembly labor hours $20 per hour inspection time at inspection station $10 per minute the current traditional cost method allocates overhead based on direct manufacturing labor hours using a rate of $20 per labor hour. what are the indirect manufacturing costs per remote control assuming an method is used and a batch of 10 remote controls are produced? the batch requires 100 parts, 5 direct manufacturing labor hours, and 3 minutes of inspection time.

If a government accumulates chronic budget deficits over time, what's one possible result? a. a collective action problem b. a debt crisis c. regulatory capture d. an unfunded liability

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.