When General Motors and SAIC Motor created their joint venture in 1997, the employees noticed cultural differences influencing their planning. The employees of SAIC Motor, a Chinese company, could be described as patient investors focused on organizational success, and they had a more rigid organization. General Motors employees were said to be looking for quick wins with an eye on personal success as well as the venture's success, and more egalitarian in their treatment of colleagues. In the GLOBE analysis, the difference in quick wins vs. patient investors describes what dimension?

Harwood company uses a job-order costing system that applies overhead cost to jobs on the basis of machine-hours. the company's predetermined overhead rate of $2.50 per machine-hour was based on a cost formula that estimates $240,000 of total manufacturing overhead for an estimated activity level of 96,000 machine-hours. required: 1. assume that during the year the company works only 91,000 machine-hours and incurs the following costs in the manufacturing overhead and work in process accounts: compute the amount of overhead cost that would be applied to work in process for the year and make the entry in your t-accounts. 2a. compute the amount of underapplied or overapplied overhead for the year and show the balance in your manufacturing overhead t-account. 2b. prepare a journal entry to close the company's underapplied or overapplied overhead to cost of goods sold.

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The textbook defines ethics as “the principles of conduct governing an individual or a group,” and specifically as the standards one uses to decide what their conduct should be. to what extent do you believe that what happened at bp (british petrolium) is as much a breakdown in the company’s ethical systems as it is in its safety systems, and how would you defend your conclusion?