A fixed budget performance report indicates a sales variance of $20,000 favorable.

The reason for the variance:

A. is that the company sold more units than budgeted.

B. is that there was a combination of more units sold than budgeted and at a higher price than budgeted.

C. is that the company sold the budgeted number of units, but at a higher price per unit than budgeted.

D. cannot be determined from the fixed budget performance report.

Galwaysc electronics makes two products. model a requires component a and component c. model b requires component b and component c. new versions of both models are released each year with updated versions of all components. all components are sourced overseas, and abc contracts annually for a quantity of each component before seeing that year’s demand. components are only assembled into finished products once demand for each model is known. for the coming year, alwaysc’s purchasing manner has proposed ordering 500,000 units of component a, 630,000 of component b, and 1,000,000 units of component c. her boss has asked why she has recommended purchasing so much of components a and b when alwaysc will not have enough of component c to fully use all of the inventory of a and b. what factors might the purchasing manager cite to explain her recommended order? explain your reasoning.

Firms like papa john’s, domino’s, and pizza hut sell pizza and other products that are differentiated in nature. while numerous pizza chains exist in most locations, the differentiated nature of these firms’ products permits them to charge prices above marginal cost. given these observations, is the pizza industry most likely a monopoly, perfectly competitive, monopolistically competitive, or an oligopoly industry?

Vincent enjoys investing his money in ways that can generate a return. he realizes that also a chance that his investment will decrease in value. this chance is known as a. opportunity cost b. risk c. recession d. deterioration