Stopher Incorporated makes a single product. The company has a standard cost system in which it applies overhead to this product based on machine-hours. Data for last year appear below: budgeted variable overhead $ 45,220 budgeted production 20,000 units standard machine-hours per unit 1.90 machine-hours actual production 21,000 units actual variable overhead $66,789 actual machine-hours 36,900 machine-hours The variable component of the predetermined overhead rate is closest to:

True tomato inc. makes organic ketchup. to promote its products, this firm decided to make bottles in the shape of tomatoes. to accomplish this, true tomato worked with its bottle manufacture to create a set of unique molds for its bottles. which of the following specialized assets does this example demonstrate? (a) site specificity (b) research specificity (c) physical-asset specificity (d) human-asset specificity

Label each of the following statements true, false, or uncertain. explain your choice carefully. a. workers benefit equally from the process of creative destruction. b. in the past two decades, the real wages of low-skill u. s. workers have declined relative to the real wages of high-skill workers. c. technological progress leads to a decrease in employment if, and only if, the increase in output is smaller than the increase in productivity. d. the apparent decrease in the natural rate of unemployment in the united states in the second-half of the 1990s can be explained by the fact that productivity growth was unexpectedly high during that period.

During his last performance review, franco's boss urged him to set some short-term and long-term sales goals to him perform better at work. which workplace skill does franco's boss want him to improve?