The Coca-Cola Company’s manufacturing operations are ideal for process costing because it and its bottlers produce long runs of identical beverages in a continuous flow production process. Go to the companion Web site at www.cengage.com/accounting/vanderbeck and visit the link for Coca-Cola to answer the following questions:
1. Where is Coca-Cola headquartered, and how many employees does it have worldwide?
2. What functions does the Coca-Cola Company perform?
3. Who are Coca-Cola’s bottlers?
4. What functions do the bottlers perform?
5. Where does Coca-Cola rank in the sales of various types of beverages?