Principles of Managerial Accounting

Richardson Corporation plans to increase its advertising budget by 20% next year. The company currently spends $15,000 on advertising costs. In addition to advertising, Richardson spends $50,000 per year for other fixed costs and $10 per unit for variable costs. If Richardson anticipates producing 30,000 units next year, what will be next year’s total costs?

A. Calculate total estimated costs for next year.

Preferred Products has the following cost information available for 2012:

Direct materials	$4.00 per unit
Direct labor	$3.00 per unit
Variable manufacturing overhead	$2.00 per unit
Variable selling and administrative costs	$1.00 per unit
Fixed manufacturing overhead	$25,000
Fixed selling and administrative costs	$10,000

During 2012, Preferred produced 5,000 units out of which 4,600 units were sold for $30 each.

2. Calculate Preferred’s net operating income assuming the company uses variable costing.

3. Calculate Preferred’s net operating income assuming the company uses absorption costing.

You can earn a maximum of 75 points for the entire Complete section assignment in each of the five units. The Complete section is due each Sunday at midnight. Complete responses should meet or exceed the required word count if applicable. The minimum word count will need to exceed 150 words for each question unless otherwise stated. You must show your work if the question required a numerical answer.

PLEASE EXPLAIN HOW YOU CALCULATED THE ANSWER AND USE THE READING MATERIAL

I want you to write a article critique paper on the article attached here. it should be exactly 5 pages without including title page and reference page. the reference should be in apa style. the paper should include abstract page on 1st page and the remaining 4 pages should answer the following questions:

Papers should be structured as follows: 

1. Title page

2. A comprehensive summary of the article

3. The organizational culture theories and concepts apparent in the article, and how they’re articulated/integrated by the author

4. Your perspective and critique of the article

a. how well did the author capture importance and relevance organizational culture in terms of the purpose of the article/research? In other words, did it make sense?  Why or why not?

b. What data/findings/facts & figures are presented in the article? How was this information collected? Does it seem logical, reasonable to believe? 

c. Are there “holes” that the author didn’t address; was anything misleading or confusing?  Really critique what is being presented for you – the audience – to believe! 

d. What were the article’s strengths? 

e. Who should read this article? How can the information be leveraged by business professionals to impart critical knowledge or improvements into an organization?

5. References page