{"id":200924,"date":"2018-09-13T22:23:15","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T22:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/09\/13\/acct-434-week-3-cost-behavior-decision-making-quality\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T08:53:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T08:53:18","slug":"acct-434-week-3-cost-behavior-decision-making-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/acct-434-week-3-cost-behavior-decision-making-quality\/","title":{"rendered":"ACCT 434 Week 3 Cost Behavior Decision Making Quality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1.\tQuestion :\t(TCO 3) Dougherty Company employs 20 individuals. Eight employees are paid $12 per hour and the rest are salaried employees paid $3,000 a month. How would total costs of personnel be classified?\t2.\tQuestion :\t(TCO 3) For January, the cost components of a picture frame include $0.35 for the glass, $0.65 for the wooden frame, and $0.80 for assembly. The assembly desk and tools cost $400. A total of 1,000 frames is expected to be produced in the coming year. What cost function best represents these costs?\t3.\tQuestion :\t(TCO 3) Which cost estimation method uses a formal mathematical method to develop cost functions based on past data?\t4.\tQuestion :\t(TCO 3) Penny&#8217;s TV and Appliance Store is a small company that has hired you to perform some management advisory services. The following information pertains to 20X8 operations: Sales (2,000 televisions) $900,000; Cost of goods sold $400,000; Store manager&#8217;s salary per year $70,000; Operating costs per year $157,000; Advertising and promotion per year $15,000; Commissions (4% of sales) $36,000. What are the estimated total costs if Penny&#8217;s expects to sell 3,000 units next year?\t5.\tQuestion :\t(TCO 4) The formal process of choosing among alternatives is known as a(n)\t6.\tQuestion :\t(TCO 4) When using the five-step decision process, which one of the following steps should be done last?\t7.\tQuestion :\t(TCO 4) Sunk costs\t8.\tQuestion :\t(TCO 4) Northwoods Incorporated manufactures rustic furniture. The cost accounting system estimates manufacturing costs to be $90 per table, consisting of 80% variable costs and 20% fixed costs. The company has surplus capacity available. It is Northwoods&#8217; policy to add a 50% markup to full costs. A large hotel chain is currently expanding and has decided to decorate all new hotels using the rustic style. Northwoods is invited to submit a bid to the hotel chain. What is the lowest price per unit Northwoods should bid on this long-term order?\t9.\tQuestion :\t(TCO 5) Throughput contribution equals revenues minus\t10.\tQuestion :\t(TCO 5) A machine has been identified as a bottleneck and the source of the constraint for a manufacturing company that has multiple products and multiple machines. One way the company can overcome the bottleneck is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Question : (TCO 3) Dougherty Company employs 20 individuals. Eight employees are paid $12 per hour and the rest are salaried employees paid $3,000 a month. How would total costs of personnel be classified? 2. Question : (TCO 3) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/acct-434-week-3-cost-behavior-decision-making-quality\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}