E4-2 (Static) Assigning Costs to Activity Cost Pools, Identifying a Cost Driver [LO 4-2, 4-3] Name of Budgeted CostBudgeted Cost Plant insurance$86,100 Testing raw materials 45,000 Manufacturing equipment setup 7,200 Quality inspections 57,000 Property taxes 23,000 Electricity, plant 14,000 Electricity, manufacturing equipment 51,250 Depreciation, plant 18,800 Depreciation, manufacturing equipment 36,700 Maintenance worker (manufacturing equipment) 22,500 Indirect labor (manufacturing equipment setup) 8,300 Design engineering 220,000 Required: 1. Assign each of the budgeted costs above to one of the following activity cost pools: Engineering Equipment setup Quality control Factory facilities Manufacturing equipment 2. Compute the total cost of each pool. 3. Indicate whether the activities in each

Skathy lee berggren, a professor of oral communication at cornell university, indicates “a lot of my students re­ally [only] scratch the surface with the type of research they’re doing.” according to andy guess, at inside higher ed, “just because students walk in the door as ‘digital natives’, doesn’t mean they’re equipped to handle the heavy lifting of digital databases and proprietary search engines that comprise the bulk of modern, online re­search techniques.” students erroneously think a google search is research. as you read through the reasons that should stimulate your interest in studying research methods or evaluate the nine factors that guarantee good research, what actions do you propose to narrow the gap between students’ research competence and what’s required of a modern college graduate about to become a manage