Of the 5 popular and commonly used capital budget techniques, 4 common methods are:

A company is going to evaluate the quality performance of several suppliers over a 120 day period and the initial measure will be the acceptance rate of each incoming lot. Which of the following would be the most appropriate to use to track the performance of each supplier?

The portion of setup that is charged to the order includes

Greater input than output at a work center on an occasional basis is most likely caused by

An process that was in control using control charts now has a mean that is trending to be out of control, the most likely reason is

Units per period: 10,000
Direct labor at actual: $160,000
Direct material as standard: $600,000
Overhead: $400,000
Margin per unit: $50
Scrap unit per period: 100
Using the information provided on the most recent period, the product cost based on process costing is

Work center 10 has 44 hours of available capacity, product X has an internal setup time of 2 hours, and a run time of 4 hours per piece. What quantity of product X can be produced?

In its haste to roll out new products, marketing often sells product too early and promises delivery dates that are unworkable. A good way to prevent this type of failures is to

Point-of-use storage has which of the following advantages as compared to warehousing?

An electronic board that provides visibility of floor status and supplies information to help coordinate the efforts to linked work centers is

A gear manufacturer has departments running 3 shifts/day, 5 days a week except for the heat-treating furnace which must run 24 hours/day, 7 days a week;
Shifts for all departments, except the heat-treating furnace, are 8 hours with 1 hour of lunch/break time per day.
The heat-treating furnace produces 50 units/hour, operating 24 hours/day, 7 days/week, with no down time;
The gear machining process produces 85 units an hour, operating at 3 shifts/day, 5 days/week.
The final assembly line currently is a bottleneck and is capable of producing at a rate of 120 units per hour, and operates 1 shift/day, 5 days/week.
Demand is for 8000 end items per week, what actions should the company make that will allow the 8000 end items to be made?