When a company gathers knowledge about the competitors of the firm, they are leveraging their informational resource. a. true b. false?

In response to the gates malaria forum in october 2007, countries are debating the pros and cons of eradication. dr. arata kochi of the world health organization believes that with enough money malaria cases could be cut by 90 percent, but he believes that it would be very expensive to eliminate the remaining 10 percent of cases. he concluded that countries should not strive to eradicate malaria. source: the new york times, march 4, 2008 draw a marginal cost curve that is consistent with dr. kochis opinion as reported above. draw a marginal benefit curve that is consistent with dry. kochis opinion as reported above. draw a point to show the quantity of malaria eradicated that achieves allocative efficiency.

The budgeted overhead cost for the year is $1,260,000. the company has estimated that one-third of the budgeted overhead cost is incurred to support the firm's two partners, and two-thirds goes to support the staff accountants. the current audit bid for monoco industries requires $18,000 in direct partner professional labor, $30,000 in direct staff accountant professional labor, $5,000 in direct material. what is the overhead rate based on a single cost driver (rounded to the nearest percentage)?

The following cost data relate to the manufacturing activities of chang company during the just completed year: manufacturing overhead costs incurred: indirect materials $ 15,800 indirect labor 138,000 property taxes, factory 8,800 utilities, factory 78,000 depreciation, factory 150,600 insurance, factory 10,800 total actual manufacturing overhead costs incurred $ 402,000 other costs incurred: purchases of raw materials (both direct and indirect) $ 408,000 direct labor cost $ 68,000 inventories: raw materials, beginning $ 20,800 raw materials, ending $ 30,800 work in process, beginning $ 40,800 work in process, ending $ 70,800 the company uses a predetermined overhead rate of $20 per machine-hour to apply overhead cost to jobs. a total of 20,500 machine-hours were used during the year. required: 1. compute the amount of underapplied or overapplied overhead cost for the year. 2. prepare a schedule of cost of goods manufactured for the year.