In 2014, Xenex Market Services began development of a customer management software package for their own internal use and incurred $40,000 costs related to conceptual formulation of design alternatives. In 2015, management agreed to fully fund development of the software and spent $120,000 in development costs. In 2016, development was completed after incurring an additional $160,000 in development costs plus another $ 60,000 was spent on training costs for using the software. In 2017, the company started using the software and began amortizing related costs over a 10-year expected useful life. What is the amount of amortization expense for 2017 for this internally-developed software

Your project team’s recommendations to increase productivity have been approved and your team is now working on an implementation plan. in order to accomplish the plan, several subject matter experts from various parts of the organization have been brought in to assist. you have noticed friction and conflict among team members. some of the disagreement and opposition on your team supports the achievement of team goals and objectives. this type of conflict can be described as:

Which term refers to the cost that motivates an economic decision

Solomon chemical company makes three products, b7, k6, and x9, which are joint products from the same materials. in a standard batch of 320,000 pounds of raw materials, the company generates 70,000 pounds of b7, 150,000 pounds of k6, and 100,000 pounds of x9. a standard batch costs $3,840,000 to produce. the sales prices per pound are $10, $14, and $20 for b7, k6, and x9, respectively. (a) allocate the joint product cost among the three final products using weight as the allocation base. (b) allocate the joint product cost among the three final products using market value as the allocation base. (c) allocate the joint product cost among the three final products using weight as the allocation base.