Sanford Tools produces a variety of scissors and other cutting instruments at its Birmingham manufacturing plant. The plant is highly automated and uses an activity-based coating system to overhead costs to its various product lines. The company expects to produce 24,000 total units during the current period. The costs and cost drivers below associated with four activity cost pools are given below: Production of 1,000 units of a pipe-cutting tool required 400 labor hours, 10 setups, and consumed 30% of the product sustained activities and resultant in an overhead allocation of $15, 400. What amount of batch-level overhead costs was expected during the period? $24,000 $2, 400 $12, 500 None of these answers is correct. The kind of responsibility center that would be evaluated by comparing income on assets to the amount of assets invested is: An investment center. An asset center. A cost center. A profit center. The length of time required to recover the initial investment in a capital asset is known as the: the rate of return. investment period, present value period, payback period, The manager of Peerless Company's Toy Division is not satisfied with the level of return on investment that the division achieved this year. What can be done to improve return on investment? Decrease the investment in assets Increase operating expenses Increase sales Both decrease the investment in assets and increase sales are correct