The full question is:
Which of the following are facility-level activities? (select all that apply)
a. Paying factory insurance
b. Setting up factory equipment
c. Arranging for shipping products to a customer
d. Property taxes on plant
Answer:
Paying factory insurance
Property taxes on plant
Explanation:
Facility level activities are defined as those activities that cannot be traced to a particular product, but are carried out to maintain the general operations of a business. They are also called business sustaining activities.
Examples include depreciation, cost of security, cost of maintenance and taxes.
These activities need to be executed seamlessly by the business if they want to maintain efficiency of the production process. For example if machines are not maintained according to maintenance schedule, they can breakdown and cause delays in production.
Answer:
Task Environment
Explanation:
Task environment is an external environment that affects an organization's ability to achieve its business goals. We could say that any type of business or customer relationship directly with an organization has the ability of being the part of the business environment. We could count some examples to the mission environment sectors : competitors, customers, suppliers, and labor supply.
Answer:
<h2>The United States has the comparative advantage in car production.</h2>
Explanation:
- Japan has a lower opportunity cost of producing televisions compared to cars, implying that Japan basically has to give up or sacrifice or trade off relatively less number of cars to produce one more television compared to the production of one more car.
- Alternatively, US has a lower opportunity cost of producing cars relative to televisions meaning that US has to give up, sacrifice or trade off less number of televisions to manufacture one more car in comparison to the production of one more television.
- Hence, in this case,US has a comparative advantage in the production of cars and Japan has a comparative advantage in production of television and both countries can produce these respective commodities by using relatively less productive resources or factor inputs.
Answer:
This would be the loss on paper only.
Explanation:
Given investment trading securities = $143000
During the current year, the loss experienced on investment = $7300
The tax rate = 33%
However, this loss that is reported as the part of other comprehensive income would be the loss on paper only because the actual loss can be seen when the stock is sold but this unrealized loss is on paper only so there will no effect of this loss in comprehensive income.