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2 years ago

Hewlett-Packard delays customization of its laser printers as long as possible. This is an example of which of the following?

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Alona [7]2 years ago

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Answer: (B) Postponement

Explanation:

The postponement is one of the type of business strategy that helps in maximize the various types of benefits and the risk in the business by delay the business investment of the products and the services.

The postponement plays an important role in the supply chain management concept as it helps in producing the various types of generic products.

According to the given question, the Hewlett Packard delay the customization of the laser printer and this is an example of the postponement.

Therefore, Option (B) is correct.

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Old School Publishing Inc. began printing operations on January 1. Jobs 301 and 302 were completed during the month, and all cos

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Answer and Explanation:

The Journal entry is shown below:-

1. Work in progress Dr, $68,900

(10,900 + $18,300 + 26,000 + $13,700)

Factory overhead Dr, $7,900

To Material $76,800

(Being direct and indirect material used is recorded)

2. Work in progress Dr, $54,900

($8,900 + $17,700 + $16,000 + $12,300)

Factory overhead Dr, $13,200

To Wages payable $68,100

(Being direct and indirect labor used is recorded)

3. Work in progress Dr, $39,259

To Factory overhead $39,259

($54,900 × ($5,785 ÷ $8,090))

(Being factory over applied is recorded)

4. Finished goods Dr, $73,090

To Work in progress $73,090

($25,585 + $47,505)

(Being Completion of Job 301 and Job 302 is recorded)

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2 years ago

A catering company prepared and served 350 meals at an anniversary celebration last week using 8 workers. The week before, 2 wor

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Answer:

Labour productivity at an anniversary celebration = 43.75

Labour productivity at a wedding reception = 115

Labour productivity is higher at the wedding reception.

Explanation:

Labour productivity is the ratio of output to labour

Labour productivity at an anniversary celebration = 350 / 8 = 43.75

Labour productivity at a wedding reception = 230 / 2 = 115

Labour productivity is higher at the wedding reception. Less labour produces more more meals.

This can be explained by the law of diminishing marginal returns

the law of diminishing returns states that as more units of a variable input is added to a fixed income of production, output might increase at a point but after some time total output would increase at a decreasing rate and marginal product would be decreasing.

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2 years ago

A buyer representative locates a suitable property through an owner broker. The buyer buys the property, the seller pays a commi

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Answer:

Single agent for the owner

Explanation:

In real estate, broker could play two roles:

- As a single agent

- or as a transaction broker

If the broker play as the transaction broker, that broker will mediate that transaction in a way that mutually beneficial for the seller and the buyer.

But, single agent only represent one side of the party. (either the buyer alone or the sellers alone). Single agent will handle the transaction to benefit only the party it represented.

"Owner broker" means that the broker only represents the Seller. This broker will try to make the price of the property as high as possible for the seller's benefit.

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2 years ago

Describe the different types of instructional characteristics that this program should have for learning and transfer to occur a

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Answer:

Answer explained below

Explanation:

Safety is very important aspect in factory to avoid injuries and accidents. The injuries and accidents depends on type of factory and safety measures taken. So all employees should have knowledge of safety in the work. There are different job profiles for different levels of the peoples in the organization. So safety instructional material will be different for different levels of employees in the organization.

The account and office employees are out of production process so they should know basic instructions such as fire safety.

The employees who are working on particular machines they should having separate instructions about handling of machines and safety measures.

The Peons and watch mans should required different safety instructions to avoid injuries and accident.

There are various cadres of managers like Production Manager, Finance Manager, HR Manager, Marketing Manager. More accidents generally happens in production area, So production Manager has required more instructional material.

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1 year ago

The General Fund levies property taxes in the amount of $1,000,000 for calendar year 2019. It expects to collect $950,000 during

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Answer:

Under the accrual basis, it should recognize $1,000,000 as property tax revenue for the year 2019. The remaining $45,000 that it does not collect in year 2019 will be accounted for as Property Tax Receivable while the $5,000 will be recorded as Uncollectible Expense in 2019.

Explanation:

The accrual concept or basis of accounting requires that all revenues and expenses relating to a fiscal year be recognized in that accounting year. It is not only the actual cash receipts and payments that should be recognized. This means that any revenue that is due but not yet received will be accounted for in the year that the revenue arises. And all the related expenses for raising the revenue will also be accounted for in the same year.

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