You have been hired as a marketing director for terraineous, a hiking apparel and footwear company. your most urgent problem is that sales of its newest product, a hiking boot, are failing to meet projections. in analyzing the situation, you learn that the company is falling short in customer service; no one has been designated to answer buyers' questions about how to clean and care for the boot. when you meet with the ceo, you want to pinpoint exactly which variable of the marketing mix is at the root of this problem. what should you tell her?

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Manipulation manufacturing's (amm) standards anticipate that there will be 5 pounds of raw material used for every unit of finished goods produced. amm began the month of maymay with 8,000 pounds of raw material, purchased 25,500 pounds for $ 15,300 and ended the month with 7,400 pounds on hand. the company produced 4,9004,900 units of finished goods. the company estimates standard costs at $ 1.10 per pound. the materials price and efficiency variances for the month of maymay were:

Moody corporation uses a job-order costing system with a plantwide predetermined overhead rate based on machine-hours. at the beginning of the year, the company made the following estimates: machine-hours required to support estimated production 100,000 fixed manufacturing overhead cost $ 650,000 variable manufacturing overhead cost per machine-hour $ 3.00 required: 1. compute the plantwide predetermined overhead rate. 2. during the year, job 400 was started and completed. the following information was available with respect to this job: direct materials $ 450 direct labor cost $ 210 machine-hours used 40