Quality Chemicals Ltd manufactures a chemical compound which is widely used in industrial cleaning. The compound is made from a small number of chemical products. One of these raw materials, Chemical X, is bought from a supplier in a developing country. Chemical Xis scarce and is available from only a few global suppliers. In its untreated form, Chemical X is also toxic and can cause serious damage to the health of individuals who are exposed to it. It is also known that the local environment around factories that produce Chemical X are subject to extensive contamination. A few months ago, Quality Chemicals Ltd renewed a long-term agreement with the supplier for the purchase of Chemical X Senior management are aware of the health and environmental risks associated with Chemical X, but did not see that these had any relevance to its own business. The toxic effects of the chemical are eliminated by its treatment in the production process that Quality Chemicals uses to make its own chemical compound. Following a major industrial accident one week ago at the main manufacturing site of the supplier of Chemical X, there has been a widespread and intensive reporting campaign in the press and television. The dangers of Chemical X have become a matter of widespread public debate, and a television program has identified Quality Chemicals as a major user of the product An action group has been formed that seeks to ban the import of Chemical X into the country and for the closure of Quality Chemicals manufacturing sites. The board directors of Quality Chemicals Ltd believe that the public concem is excessive and unjustified, but the directors now recognise that they should have done much more to report on the risks from Chemical X and the measures taken to deal with them, in their social and environmental report m Explain three alternative courses of action that Quality Chemicals may take in response to the damaging media reports about its association with Chemical Xand its social and environmental

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Oriole Labs, Inc. provides mad cow disease testing for both state and federal governmental agricultural agencies. Because the company's customers are governmental agencies, prices are strictly regulated. Therefore, Oriole Labs must constantly monitor and control its testing costs. Shown below are the standard costs for a typical test. Direct materials (2 test tubes @ $1.80 per tube) Direct labor (1 hour @ $32 per hour) Variable overhead (1 hour @ $7.00 per hour) Fixed overhead (1 hour @ $12.00 per hour) Total standard cost per test Direct materials (2,520 test tubes) Direct labor (1,248 hours) Variable overhead Fixed overhead $4,284 38,688 7,068 $3.60 14,940 32.00 The lab does not maintain an inventory of test tubes. As a result, the tubes purchased each month are used that month. Actual activity for the month of November 2022, when 1,200 tests were conducted, resulted in the following. 7.00 12.00 $54.60 Monthly budgeted fixed overhead is $16,320. Revenues for the month were $79,200,…

A plastic-manufacturing company owns andoperates a polypropylene production facility that converts the propylene from one of its cracking facilitiesto polypropylene plastics for outside sale. The polypropylene production facility is currently forced tooperate at less than capacity due to an insufficiencyof propylene production capacity in its hydrocarboncracking facility. The chemical engineers are considering alternatives for supplying additional propyleneto the polypropylene production facility. Two feasiblealternatives are to build a pipeline to the nearest outside supply source and to provide additional propylene by truck from an outside source. The engineersalso gathered the following projected cost estimates.• Future costs for purchased propylene excludingdelivery: $0.215 per lb.• Cost of pipeline construction: $200,000 per pipeline mile.• Estimated length of pipeline: 180 miles.• Transportation costs by tank truck: $0.05 per lb,utilizing a common carrier.• Pipeline operating…

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Holly Hunter had been working as a nurse in Long Tong Hospital in Hong Kong when the outbreak of SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) became a real threat to her in her workplace. As a safety precaution, Holly decided to return home to South Africa. She shipped a container of various fashion items (clothes, handbags, and accessories) from Hong Kong to South Africa and on her return, set up shop in the Red Shed market at the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront in Cape Town. After three months of trading, it appeared to Holly that her business was performing well. However, when she read the financial statements, there were a number of things that Holly did not understand. She decided to have lunch with you, her accountant, in order to discuss the questions and concerns that she had about her business. Below is an extract of the conversation that Holly Hunter had with you. The extract out- lines her questions and concerns: 1. There are a number of customers that have ordered and paid for…

industria cataria pieretti wants you to deliver the goods to the port of genova . however cataria pieretti will assume the risk for the goods once they are loaded into the container which icoterm is used here ?

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Bouwens Corporation manufactures a solvent used in airplane maintenance shops. Bouwens sells the solvent to both U.S. military services and commercial airlines. The solvent is produced in a single plant in one of two buildings. Although the solvent sold to the military is chemically identical to that sold to the airlines, the company produces solvent for the two customer types in different buildings at the plant. The solvent sold to the military is manufactured in building 155 (B-155) and is labeled M-Solv. The solvent sold to the commercial airlines is manufactured in building 159 (B-159) and is labeled C-Solv. B-155 is much newer and is considered a model work environment with climate control and other amenities. Workers at Bouwens, who all have roughly equal skills, bid on their job locations (the buildings they will work in) and are assigned based on bids and seniority. As workers gain seniority, they also receive higher pay. The solvent sold to the two customers is essentially…