A Stock Person at the Local Grocery Store Has a Job

question 15

Multiple Choice

A stock person at the local grocery store has a job consisting of the following five segments:
(1) picking up boxes of tomatoes from the stockroom floor
(2) accelerating to a comfortable speed
(3) carrying the boxes to the tomato display at constant speed
(4) decelerating to a stop
(5) lowering the boxes slowly to the floor.
During which of the five segments of the job does the stock person do positive work on the boxes?

• A) (1) and (5)
• B) (1) only
• C) (1), (2), (4), and (5)
• D) (1) and (2)
• E) (2) and (3)

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Definitions:

Activity-based Costing

A costing method that identifies activities in a company and assigns the cost of each activity to all products and services according to the actual consumption by each.

Shipping and Handling Activity

The process of preparing, packaging, and delivering goods to a destination.

Activity Rate

A metric used to measure the efficiency or productivity of a company's operations, often tied to specific actions or tasks.

Departmental Factory Overhead Rate

A rate used to allocate indirect manufacturing costs to different departments within a factory.