Jennifer Caratini has recently accepted the job as the foodservice director for Technomar Industries, a corporation with 1,000 employees. As their foodservice director, Jennifer's role is to operate a company cafeteria, serving 800 to 900 meals per day, as well as an executive dining room, serving 100 to 200 meals per day. All of the meals are provided "free of charge" to the employees of Technomar. One of Jennifer's first job is to prepare a budget for next year's operations. Question: In addition to her know-how as a foodservice director, what skills will Jennifer likely need as she interacts with the executives at Technomar who must approve her operating budget?

Prepare a 1-2 page double spaced memo to the company president, David Morgan (a former top salesperson with no accounting education), recommending the best choice in the following scenario: You have recently been hired as the controller for Sit-Anywhere, a manufacturer of benches used in public parks. The company produces three models with their customizable stainless-steel benches being their fastest growing product. While the company is moderately profitable, its overhead has been growing faster than its sales which has you concermed. The company prices all three products at a 50% margin and has historically allocated fixed costs based on direct labor hours. The figures produced for the last quarter by the previous controller are as follows: Standard Standard Custom Wood Steel Stainless Total Sales $ 500,000 $ 1,000,000 $ 1,000,000 $ 2,500,000 Variable Costs 250,000 500,000 250,000 500,000 500,000 500,000 1,250,000 1,250,000 Cont. Margin Fixed Costs: DLH 10,000 20,000 20,000 50,000…

Hi, I need help with this question. Thank you!

A coffee bean seller has decided to acquire new packaging machinery that will help increase the number of bags of coffee beans that each staff can complete in a day. They have 10 employees, each working eight hours per day, and able to process 12 bags of coffee beans daily. The payroll cost for the officers is Php 1,820 per day per officer, and there is a daily overhead expense of Php 6,000 for the machinery acquisition. What would be the value of their multifactor productivity with the new machinery in bags per Php? BRIE O 0.0029 O 0.0050 0.0031 O 0.0066 1545

Ms. Magan Dah and her sister, Ms. Supla Dah got into the cakes and pastries business almost by accident. Magan, a BSHRM graduate often bake cakes as gifts for friends: Occasionally, they would set up a booth at a trade fair and sell a few of the cakes. The day came when a buyer for a major department store offered them a contract to produce 1,500 cakes of various flavors for $10.000. The sisters realized that it was time to get down to business. To make bookkeeping simpler, they have priced all the cakes at $8 Variable cost per unit is $6 and they have to rent a facility for $4,000 a month 4) Calculate their EBIT on the department store order. 8)If the store refuses to pay more than $58.00 per unit but is willing to negotiate quantity, what quantity of cakes will result to an EBIT of $4,000?

Mark Benny  started MM LTD, a niche furniture brand, 10 years ago. he ran the business as a sole proprietorship. While he has 50 skilled carpenters and 5 sales people on his payroll, he  has been taking care of the accounting by himself. Now, he intends to offer 40% of the ownership to public in next couple years and is willing to make changes and has hired George as a management accountant to organize and improve the accounting systems. MM LTD's total budgeted manufacturing overheads cost for the current year is Ugx 111,240,000 and budgeted total labor hours are 20,000. Jemba Fred the financial accountant has been applying traditional costing method during the whole 10 years period. MM LTD's sofas includes the 2-set, 3-set and 6-set options. State House recently placed an order for 150 units of the 6-set type. The order is expected to be delivered in one-month time. Since it is a customized order, State House will be billed at cost plus 25%. George is not a fan of traditional costing…

Mary Jones and Jack Smart have joined forces to start M&J Food Products, a processor of packaged shredded lettuce for institutional use. Jack has years of food processing experience, and Mary has extensive commercial food preparation experience. The process will consist of opening crates of lettuce and then sorting, washing, slicing, preserving, and finally packaging the prepared lettuce. Together, with help from vendors, they think they can adequately estimate demand, fixed costs, revenues, and variable cost per 5-pound bag of lettuce. They think a largely manual process will have monthly fixed cost of $50,000 and a variable cost of $2.50 per bag. They expect to sell 75,000 bags of lettuce per month. They expect to sell the shredded lettuce for $3.25 per 5-pound bag. Jack and Mary has been contacted by a vendor to consider a more mechanized process. This new process will have monthly fixed cost of $125,000 per month with a variable cost of $1.75 per bag. Based on the above…

Caribbean Hotel Services (CHS) is a small company specialising in services to the hotelindustry. The company was just purchased, and the new owner was amazed to learn that therewas no retirement plan for CHS workers. The new owner would like to provide adequateretirement benefits for workers and reward long-time service. The workforce consists of fourteen(14) skilled hotel housekeepers, each of whom is over age 50 and has been with the company forover twenty-five years; two (2) customer service representatives ages 40 and 55; three bellhopsages 35, 27, and 38; and a night auditor aged 54.  a.Distinguish between defined benefits and defined contribution pension schemesb. Definitive position as to which plan should be adopted and why c. Disclosure requirements in the financial statements

Who would be the stakeholders concerned in the case study?

The Vest School of Vocational Technology has organized the school training programs into three departments. Each department provides training in a different area as follows: nursing assistant, dental hygiene, and office technology. The school's owner, Candice Vest, wants to know how much it cost to operate each of the three departments. To accumulate the total cost for each department, the accountant has identified several indirect costs that must be allocated to each. These costs are $10,080 of telephone expense, $2,016 of supplies expense, $720,000 of office rent, $144,000 of janitorial services, and $150,000 of salary paid to the dean of students. To provide a reasonably accurate allocation of costs, the accountant has identified several possible cost drivers. These drivers and their association with each department follow.   Cost Driver Department 1 Department 2 Department 3 Number of telephone 28 16 19 Number of faculty members 20 16 12 Square footage of office space 28,000 16,800…