A cost driver refers to a unit of an activity that causes a change in the cost of an activity or it refers to a factor that causes a change in the cost of an activity.
In the given problem the number of animal intake will change the overall cost incurred on the animals that are kept in the shelter, and as animal record keeping cost pool manages the data related to each animal in the shelter, so the number of animal intake and total number of adoption transactions would be a suitable cost driver for the animal record keeping cost pool.
Lookin' for a Home is an animal shelter in Omaha, Nebraska. The shelter relies on government...
The goal of this homework is to write a small database system for an Animal Shelter. This is a no-kill shelter like the one just west of the Addition Airport. You will accept animal “donations” to the shelter, but mostly only dogs and cats. (But yes, there may be the occasional hamster or other nondog, non-cat animal donation.) At present, all we need to do is write the skeleton of a database that will track all the animals in the...