Case-Based Critical Thinking Questions Case 4-1 Santo Is Creating a Company

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Case-Based Critical Thinking Questions Case 4-1 Santo is creating a company newsletter for his architectural firm. He has solicited contributions from his colleagues on their current projects, and several people have provided photos of homes and businesses they are currently remodeling. Santo is about to begin compiling all the information using desktop publishing in Microsoft Word 2013. Santo wants to use most of the graphics his colleagues asked to display with their articles, but his file size has become unmanageable with so many sketches and photos. Santo might be able to reduce his document file size without leaving out content by _______.

• A) converting graphics to TIFFs and GIFs
• B) use only BMP files
• C) saving all graphics as JPEG files
• D) converting graphics to PNGs

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Definitions:

Standard Direct Labour Hours

The estimated amount of labor hours required to produce a certain amount of output under normal conditions.

Actual Production

The real quantity of goods or services produced within a specific period, as opposed to planned or theoretical outputs.

Normal Production

The average production capacity or level of output that a manufacturing process or plant is designed to achieve under normal conditions.

Direct Material Quantity Variance

The variance between the real amount of materials consumed in production and the anticipated standard quantity, multiplied by the cost per unit set by standards.