Blue Ace Autos Inc. and Ferdova Autos Inc. are two competing automobile companies. While Blue Ace Autos' Cost of goods sold/Revenue is 63.4 percent, the Cost of goods sold/Revenue of Ferdova Autos is 54.2 percent. What do you infer from this financial data?
A. Blue Ace Autos is less efficient than Ferdova Autos in producing goods.
B. Blue Ace Autos has a higher profit margin than Ferdova Autos.
C. Blue Ace Autos and Ferdova Autos have achieved a competitive parity.
D. Blue Ace Autos is able to command a greater price premium for its products than Ferdova Autos.

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Laval produces lamps and home lighting fixtures. its most popular product is a brushed aluminum desk lamp. this lamp is made from components shaped in the fabricating department and assembled in the assembly department. information related to the 22,000 desk lamps produced annually follows. direct materials $280,000direct labor fabricating department (8,000 dlh × $24 per dlh) $192,000assembly department (16,600 dlh × $26 per dlh) $431,600machine hours fabricating department $15,200mhassembly department $20,850mhexpected overhead cost and related data for the two production departments follow. fabricating assemblydirect labor hours 150,000dlh 295,000dlhmachine hours 161,000mh 128,000mhoverhead cost $400,000 430,000required1. determine the plantwide overhead rate for laval using direct labor hours as a base.2. determine the total manufacturing cost per unit for the aluminum desk lamp using the plantwide overhead rate.3. compute departmental overhead rates based on machine hours in the fabricating department and direct labor hours in the assembly department.4. use departmental overhead rates from requirement 3 to determine the total manufacturing cost per unit for the aluminum desk lamps.

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