. Llewelyn Enterprises is a mid-cap manufacturing company that generated an after-tax return on invested capital of 20% in the most recent twelve months and reported free cash flows to the firm (FCFF) of $60 million during the period. If the company had $900 million in equity, $600 million in debt and $300 million in cash at the start of the period and expects to maintain its current return on capital and reinvestment rate next year, estimate its expected growth rate in operating income next year.

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?