A system of assigning costs to departments and products on the basis of a variety of activities instead of only one allocation base is called: Select one: a. Activity-based costing. b. A cost center accounting system. c. A responsibility accounting system. d. Controllable costing. e. Performance costing.

Sailcloth & more currently produces boat sails and is considering expanding its operations to include awnings for homes and travel trailers. the company owns land beside its current manufacturing facility that could be used for the expansion. the company bought this land 5 years ago at a cost of $319,000. at the time of purchase, the company paid $24,000 to level out the land so it would be suitable for future use. today, the land is valued at $295,000. the company has some unused equipment that it currently owns valued at $38,000. this equipment could be used for producing awnings if $12,000 is spent for equipment modifications. other equipment costing $490,000 will also be required. what is the amount of the initial cash flow for this expansion project?

Mno corporation uses a job-order costing system with a predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor-hours. the company based its predetermined overhead rate for the current year on the following data: total estimated direct labor-hours 50,000 total estimated fixed manufacturing overhead cost $ 285,000 estimated variable manufacturing overhead per direct labor-hour $ 3.80 recently, job p123 was completed with the following characteristics: total actual direct labor-hours 20 direct materials $ 710 direct labor cost $ 500 the amount of overhead applied to job p123 is closest to:

Anderson farms, inc. provided the following for 2018: cost of goods sold (cost of sales)$1,300,000beginning merchandise inventory340,000ending merchandise inventory630,000calculate the company's inventory turnover ratio for the year. (round your answer to two decimal places.)