Answer the Following Questions Using the Information Below

question 85

Multiple Choice

Answer the following questions using the information below:
Tri-State Manufacturing expects to spend $800,000 in 2012 in appraisal costs if it does not change its incoming materials inspection method. If it decides to implement a new receiving method, it will save $80,000 in fixed appraisal costs and variable costs of $0.40 per unit of finished product. The new method involves $120,000 in training costs and an additional $160,000 in annual equipment rental. It takes two units of material for each finished product.
Internal failure costs average $160 per failed unit of finished goods. During 2011, 5% of all completed items had to be reworked. External failure costs average $400 per failed unit. The company's average external failures are 1% of units sold. The company carries no ending inventories, because all jobs are on a per order basis and a just-in-time inventory ordering method is used.
-The amount of time from when an order is ready to start on the production line to when it becomes a finished good is referred to as:

• A)manufacturing lead time
• B)bottleneck
• C)customer-response time
• D)a time driver

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Definitions:

Significant Influence

The power to participate in the financial and operating policy decisions of an investee, but not control them.

Common Stock

Equities representing ownership in a corporation, giving holders voting rights and a share in the company's profits via dividends.

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An accounting technique used to record investments in other companies, where the investment's value is adjusted to reflect the investor's share of the company's post-acquisition earnings or losses.