1) The problems pertain to chapter 6, Stevenson. a) CapActix Business Solutions is structured into four departments: Financial Accounting (FA), Cost Accounting (CA), Managerial Accounting (MA), and Tax Accounting (TA). The interdepartmental workflows are given in the table. The present layout is FA-CA-MA-TA; the distance between adjacent departments is 10 feet; the firm has calculated the sum of the loads (loads x distance) as 8250. i) The firm wants to test whether a new layout CA-FA-MA-TA is a better one when compared to the present layout. Calculate the sum of the (loads x distance) of this new layout. Is this new layout better than the present layout? Interdepartmental Activity Matrix Dept FA Dept CA Dept MA Dept TA 7 Dept FA Dept CA Dept MA Dept TA 195 12 4 82 224