Juanita is deciding whether to buy a skirt that she wants, as well as where to buy it. Three stores carry the same skirt, but it is more convenient for Juanita to get to some stores than others. For example, she can go to her local store, located 15 minutes away from where she works, and pay a marked-up price of $112 for the skirt:

Store Travel Time Each Way (Minutes) Price of a Skirt (Dollars per skirt)
Local Department Store 15 103
Across Town 30 89
Neighboring City 60 63

Juanita makes $16 an hour at work. She has to take time off work to purchase her skirt, so each hour away from work costs her $16 in lost income. Assume that returning to work takes Juanita the same amount of time as getting to a store and that it takes her 30 minutes to shop. As you answer the following questions, ignore the cost of gasoline and depreciation of her car when traveling.

Complete the following table by computing the opportunity cost of Juanita's time and the total cost of shopping at each location.

Store Opportunity Cost of Time (Dollars) Price of a Skirt (Dollars per skirt) Total Cost (Dollars)

Local Department Store 103
Across Town 89
Neighboring City 63

Assume that Juanita takes opportunity costs and the price of the skirt into consideration when she shops. Juanita will minimize the cost of the skirt if she buys it from the:_______

Answer:

Juanita should purchase the skirt at the neighboring city because the total economic cost will be lowest.

Explanation:

three options:

Juanita makes $16 per hour at her work, and her purchase decision includes the opportunity cost of lost wages:

total economic cost:

Juanita should purchase the skirt at the neighboring city because the total economic cost will be lowest ($103)

Opportunity costs are the benefits lost or extra costs incurred for choosing one activity or investment over another alternative. Economic costs include both accounting costs and opportunity costs.

Kenrick Corporation uses activity-based costing to compute product margins. In the first stage, the activity-based costing system allocates two overhead accounts equipment expense and indirect labor to three activity cost pools Processing, Supervising and Other based on resource consumption. Data to perform these allocations appear below.
Overhead costs
Equipment expense $18,000
Indirect labor $2,000
Distribution of Resource Consumption Across activity cost pools
Activity Cost Pools
Processing Supervising Other
Equipment expense 0.10 0.30 0.60
Indirect labor 0.30 0.40 0.30
In the second stage. Processing costs are assigned to products using machine-hours (MHs) and Supervising costs are assigned to products using the number of batches. The costs in the Other activity cost pool are not assigned to products. Activity data for the company's two products as follows.
Activity
MHs (Processing) Batches (Supervising)
Product U4 5,500 600
Product C7 4,500 1,400
Total 10,000 2,000
Finally, sales and direct cost data are combined with Processing and Supervising costs to determine product margins.
Sales and Direct Cost Data:
Product U4 Product C7
Sales (total) $58,400 $31,800
Direct materials (total) $26,900 $13,900
Direct labor (total) $25,000 $11,200
What is the product margin for Product U4 under activity-based costing?
a. $3,500
b. $6,500
c. $5,180
d. $3,320

Sam is training for a triathlon, a timed race that combines swimming, biking, and running. Consider the following sentence: In order to swim for an hour, Sam must take time away from work, where he earns $10 per hour. This is in addition to paying a $5 entrance fee for the pool. Which basic principle of individual choice do these statements best illustrate? The cost of something is what you give up to get it. Markets are usually a good way to organize economic activity. People usually exploit opportunities to make themselves better off. Trade can make everyone better off.

A metal-cutting operation has a target value of 20 and consistently averages 19.8 with a standard deviation of 0.5. The design engineers have established an upper specification limit of 22 and a lower specification limit of 18. What is the process capability index? A) 1.20 B) 1.33 C) 1.46 D) 1.66 12. Following Q11, what is the process capability ratio? A) 1.33 B) 1.50 C) 1.66 D) 2.00

Every organization needs some degree of flexibility and standardization. True False Being overly committed to following rules can harm an organization and keep it from growing. True False Every organization needs either a degree of ________ to adapt to new situations or some degree of ________ to make routine tasks and decisions as efficient and effective as possible. standardization; flexibility culture; vision flexibility; standardization structure; design

Bonds payable-record issuance and premium amortization. Kaye Co. issued $1 million face amount of 11% 20-year bonds on April 1,2004. The bonds pay interest on an annual basis on March 31 each year.
Required:
a. Assume that market interest rates were slightly lower than 11% when the bonds were sold. Would the proceeds from the bond issue have been more than, less than, or equal to the face amount? Explain.
b. Independent of your answer to part a, assume that the proceeds were $1,080,000. Use the horizontal model (or write the journal entry) to show the effect of issuing the bonds.
c. Calculate the interest expense that Kaye Co. will show with respect to these bonds in its income statement for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2004, assuming that the premium of $80,000 is amortized on a straight-line basis.

Job costing, unit cost, ending work in process. Rowan Company produces pipes for concert-quality organs. Each job is unique. In April 2016, it completed all outstanding orders, and then, in May 2016, it worked on only two jobs, M1 and M2: A B C 1 Rowan Company, May 2016 Job M1 Job M2 2 Direct materials $ 75,000 $ 56,000 3 Direct manufacturing labour 275,000 209,000 Direct manufacturing labour is paid at the rate of $25 per hour. Manufacturing overhead costs are allo- cated at a budgeted rate of $22 per direct manufacturing labour-hour. Only Job M1 was completed in May. Required: 1. Calculate the total cost for Job M1. 2. 1,600 pipes were produced for Job M1. Calculate the cost per pipe. 3. Prepare the journal entry transferring Job M1 to finished goods. 4. What is the ending balance in the Work-in-Process Control account?

Suppose the U.S. imports cars from the UK​ manufacturer, McLaren. Consider an appreciation of the pound. Which of the following statements correctly describe the effects of this​change?
A. Hold all other prices constant.
B. U.S. consumers pay more dollars for each McLaren car they import from the UK.
C. McLaren supplies a greater quantity of dollars to the foreign exchange market.
D. U.S. consumers increase their purchases of McLaren cars.
E. McLaren's dollar revenues fall.
To peg the pounds per dollar exchange rate at a level higher than the market clearing exchange​ rate, the UK government needs to:_________.
a. buy pounds and sell dollars
b. buy dollars and sell pounds
c. simple announce a target exchange rate

On July 8, Jones Inc. issued an $62,900, 9%, 120-day note payable to Miller Company. Assume that the fiscal year of Jones ends on July 31. Using the 360-day year, what is the amount of interest expense recognized by Jones in the current fiscal year