Controlling Assume that you work for an airline unloading luggage from airplanes. Your boss has said that, on average, each airplane contains 100 pieces of luggage. Furthermore, your boss has stated that you should be able to unload 100 pieces of luggage from an airplane in 10 minutes. Today an airplane arrived with 150 pieces of luggage and you unloaded all of it in 13 minutes. After finishing with the 150 pieces of luggage, your boss yelled at you for exceeding the 10 minute allowance for unloading luggage from an airplane. Required: How would you feel about being yelled at for taking 13 minutes to unload 150 pieces of luggage? How does this scenario relate to the larger issue of how companies design control systems?

Ambassador Suites Inc. operates a downtown hotel property that has 300 rooms.  On average, 80% of Ambassador Suites' rooms are occupied on weekdays, and 40% are occupied during the weekend. The manager has asked you to develop a budget for the housekeeping and restaurant staff for weekdays and weekends. You have determined that the housekeeping staff requires 30 minutes to clean each occupied room.  The housekeeping staff is paid $15 per hour.  The housekeeping labor cost is fully variable to the number of occupied rooms.  The restaurant has six full-time staff on duty to staff the restaurant for breakfast and lunch (eight hours), regardless of occupancy.  However, for every 60 occupied rooms, an additional person is brought in to work in the restaurant for breakfast and lunch (eight hours). The restaurant staff is paid $13 per hour. Prepare two columns, labeled as weekday and weekend day. a. Determine the number of rooms occupied for an average weekday and weekend day. b. Determine…

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1. You are a recent graduate and you are working in the accounting department of Macy’s. Next week, you are required to attend an inventory meeting for the store located in a local mall. You know this store well because you shop there frequently. One of the managers of the store feels that the men’s shoe department is unprofitable because the selection is poor, there are few sizes available, and there just aren’t enough shoes. The manager is pushing for a very large shoe inventory to make the department more desirable to shoppers and therefore more profitable. Explain why it is good or bad to have a large inventory of shoes.  2.  Do the terms LIFO, FIFO, and Weighted Average have anything to do with the actual physical flow of the items in inventory?  Please explain.