2. Nurse Urology Cardiology Ortho OB Smith 28 18 15 75 Jones 32 48 23 38 Casey Kelly 51 36 24 36 25 38 55 12 The administrator at a local hospital must appoint head nurses to four newly established departments. The administrator has hired the above four nurses. Each nurse has been ranked on a cost scale of 0 to 100. 0 implies the nurse would be perfect for the task while 100 implies that the nurse is not suited for the department. The above table represents all possible assignments and the nurse's ratings for each department. Which nurse would you assign to which unit? What is the total cost?

Helen and Donald met with the supervisor of the pizza division of a medium-sized Italian food supplier. The supervisor explained the two key costs in his division, as follows. Cost Type Each pizza MOH Number of Units Helen's cost model Donald's cost model 2,900 MOH cost 2,900 Total Although Helen and Donald used this data to estimate a model for the division's costs, they each came up with a different model, as follows. $13,630 $3,770 Total pizza division cost = $4.70 (number of pizzas) + $3,770 Total pizza division cost = $6.00 (number of pizzas) What understanding did Helen have about the cost behavior of these costs?

Med Max buys surgical supplies from a variety of manufacturers and then resells and delivers these supplies to dozens of hospitals. In the face of declining profits, Med Max decided to implement an activity-based costing system to improve its understanding of the costs incurred to serve each hospital. The company broke its selling and administrative expenses into four activities as shown below: Activity Cost Pool Customer deliveries Total Cost $ 313,900 224,400 180,540 Manual order processing Electronic order processing Line item picking 379,500 Total selling and administrative expenses $ 1,098,340 Med Max gathered the data below for two of the many hospitals that it serves-City General and County General: Activity Activity Measure Number of deliveries Number of manual orders Number of electronic orders Number of line items picked Required 1 City General 20 0 20 120 Required 2 Activity Measure Number of deliveries Number of manual orders Number of electronic orders Number of line items…

The Write Way manufactures double sided pens- a pen on one side, a highlighteron the other. As the accounting manager, Shade is responsible for presenting three different versions of the company's income statement to the rest of the management team at year-end. Team members are very familiar with absorbtion costing, as they have been evaluating gross margin amounts and percentages for years. They are lesss keen on how fixed-MOH impacts the income statment, so Shade gathers the following current information. The information includes three possible capacity levels for calculating the fixed-MOH rate. Shade also notes there are no price or efficiency variances this period. Any fixed-MOH volume variase is written off to COGS.Theoretical level - 80,000 units Practical level - 60,000 units Normal level - 50,000 units Actual production - 65,000 units Sales Volume - 60,000 units Budgeted fixed-MOH cost - $240,000 Budgeted DM cost -  $2.25 per unit Budgeted DL cost -$1.30 per unit Budgeted…