The Shoe Shop's Normal Rate of Mark-Up on Selling Price

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Short Answer

The Shoe Shop's normal rate of mark-up on selling price is 45%. What rate of markdown can the store offer on a pair of shoes normally priced at $140, and still realize a 20% rate of mark-up on cost at the sale price?

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Definitions:

Resource Consumption

The amount of resources used up in the production of goods or services.

Activity-Based Costing

An accounting methodology that assigns costs to products or services based on the activities and resources that contribute to their production.

Activity Cost Pools

Groupings of individual costs associated with particular activities, used in activity-based costing to allocate costs more accurately.

Machining Activity Pool

A collection of all costs related to machining operations, used in activity-based costing to allocate costs based on actual usage.