Dart, inc. makes and sells umbrellas. the company is in the process of preparing its selling and administrative expense budget for the last half of the year. the following budget data are available: variable cost per unit sold monthly fixed cost sales commissions$0.60 $ 6000 shipping1.20 advertising0.30 executive salaries 4 depreciation on office equipment 8000 other0.35 28000 expenses are paid in the month incurred. if the company has budgeted to sell 8000 umbrellas in october, how much is the total budgeted variable selling and administrative expenses for october?

The cook corporation has two divisions--east and west. the divisions have the following revenues and expenses: east westsales $ 603,000 $ 506,000 variable costs 231,000 300,000 traceable fixed costs 151,500 192,000 allocated common corporate costs 128,600 156,000 net operating income (loss) $ 91,900 $ (142,000 )the management of cook is considering the elimination of the west division. if the west division were eliminated, its traceable fixed costs could be avoided. total common corporate costs would be unaffected by this decision. given these data, the elimination of the west division would result in an overall company net operating income (loss) of: multiple choice$91,900$(64,100)$(142,000)$(5 0,100)

Iceberg storage, a leading hard drive manufacturer, recently filed for bankruptcy. while most of iceberg's competitors were shifting away from physical data storage devices toward online cloud storage services, iceberg invested most of its retained earnings in the effort to improve its hard drives. once the hard-drive market drastically declined, iceberg storage was unable to capitalize on the new technology. which of the following does this scenario best illustrate a. causal ambiguity b. knowledge diffusion c. social complexity d. path dependence

Finally, you talk to oscar, the swedish manager of the plant in japan. he has been forceful with the japanese workers (and flirtatious with the female workers), but they do not respect him. he has even tried to bribe the workers to get them to perform. based on what you have learned so far, what do you think is the problem here