In Order to Avoid Double Taxation and to Escape the Frequently

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In order to avoid double taxation and to escape the frequently higher tax rate applied to capital gains,stockholders generally prefer to have corporations pay dividends rather than to retain their earnings and reinvest the money in the business.Thus,earnings should be retained only if the firm needs capital very badly and would have difficulty raising it from external sources.

Recognize external failure costs from a schedule of activity costs.

Analyze the effects of batch size changes on value-added, non-value-added, and total lead times.

Understand the components of a cost of quality report including prevention and appraisal costs.

Compute the percentage of non-value-added activities.

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