when considering data visualization elements, the incorporation or color, shape, size, or animation can be used to address

• A. complexity
• B. data distortion
• C. multiple variables
• D. data myopia

The master budget for a company contains me following production requirements.
Quarter 1- 50,000 units
Quarter 2 - 55,000 units
Quarter 3 - 45,000 units
Quarter 4 - 52,000 units
Each unit of product requires four pounds of direct material. The company has a policy to begin each quarter with an inventory of aired materials equal to 20% of that quarter's direct material requirements The budgeted direct mate da I purchases for the third quarter would be

• A. 41,400 pounds
• B. 185, 600 pounds
• C. 49, 400 pounds
• D. 36, 000 pounds

Aeronautics Inc. has designed a new airplane that entails an extremely complex manufacturing process Upon reviewing the market Aeronautics' management believes the price of the plane will need to be set below current manufacturing costs. Some on the management team have recommended stopping the project, however, the CFO believes that the plane will become profitable in the near future. The CFO most likely used which forecasting method?

• A. Learning curve analysis
• B. Exponential smoothing
• C. Time series.
• D. Cost-volume-profit analysis

Explain whether ZFI's current overhead allocation method is appropriate.
Essay
Zhiliang Foods Inc. (ZFI) is a privately-held food distributor ZFI has two production departments' the Meat Department is labor-intensive. while the Bakery Department is highly automated ZFI applies a single overhead allocation rate, using the number of pounds produced as an allocation base for the whole company The expected annual overhead costs of ZFI for 100 million pounds produced are as follows (¥ in millions).

ZFI has one payroll administrator in its Human Resources department, but most of the payroll related work is outsourced to a payroll service provider ZFI's payroll administrator is responsible for tracking the list of current employees and maintaining the most up-to-date employee information, including bank accounts for payroll direct deposits.
Each pay period, the payroll administrator emails the information for all current employees' hours worked to the payroll service provider. The service provider then processes the payroll, makes direct deposits to employees' bank accounts, mails payroll stubs to employees' homes and emails payroll reports to ZFI's payroll administrator. The payroll administrator then makes payroll journal entries to ZFI's accounting system based on the payroll reports received ZFI's accountant prepares a bank reconciliation each month to ensure ZFI s payroll payments on ZFI's bank statement match the amounts shown on the payroll reports from the service provider.
ZFl's management is evaluating the purchase of data encryption software and human resources management software next year. The human resource management software is expected to provide various human resources and payroll-related functions.
In addition, the human resource software can generate a report to indicate the monthly employee turnover rate and the average service length of employees who have resigned. The system can also generate a report to indicate the main reasons for resignations and identify current employees who are at risk of resigning. The system will recommend actions to help retain these employees, such as more training opportunities or a pay raise.
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Sportsman inc. manufactures ceramic sports-related figurines. The company's oldest lines are mass produced in a standard variety of colors and designs. A few years ago in an effort to increase sales, the company began accepting special orders with modified designs in school colors. The minimum order for these special designs is 100 units. The special orders have become very popular and now represent one quarter of the units produced. Estimates for the year follow.

Design costs manufacturing overhead and materials handling costs are budgeted at $700.000 for the year Sportsman has always used a traditional cost allocation system using aired labor hours as the allocation base but is considering an activity based costing system. The most likely result of changing to an activity-based system is that

• A. total production costs are likely to decline as department are held responsible for their costs
• B. the overhead costs allocated to the special designs will likely increase because the special design requires proportionally more overhead activity
• C. the costs allocated to each product should not change but management will be able to control various components of the cost more effectively.
• D. the overhead costs allocated to the special designs will likely decrease Because demand for them has grown