Rubbermaid allows employees to spend a percentage of their working time on special projects. Imagine that, as a manager for Rubbermaid, you have the difficult job of choosing employees for your project team. You have limited positions, and because your team is among the most celebrated at the company, you have more volunteers than roles available. What is the best way to control the conflict? a. Expand the number of teams or the number of team positions available.
b. Hire an external consultant to pick new team members for you.
c. Make prospective team members compete for the spots by running errands for you and current team members.
d. Avoid talking to employees who want to volunteer for one of your teams.

Activity-based costing (abc) is not truly a cost collection mechanism as much as it is an inventory valuation method. the main purpose for implementing an activity-based cost system is to try to overcome some of the cost distortions that occur in traditional costing from product differences when there are variations in size and complexity. however, one of the disadvantages of utilizing abc is that the additional information gathering necessary to implement costing with that level of detail might be beyond the reach of some companies with resource or financial constraints. with this in mind, what kinds of industries or companies do you think would benefit most from using activity-based costing and why? in designing or modifying an accounting system to capture appropriate costs for abc, what considerations do you think would need to be made?