Acompany incurs $3,600,000 of overhead each year in three activities: processing, packaging, and testing. the company performs 800 processing transactions, 200,000 packaging transactions, and 2,000 tests per year in producing 400,000 drums of oil and 600,000 drums of sludge. the following data are available: activities expected use of driver cost processing 800 $1,500,000 packaging 200,000 1,500,000 testing 2,000 600,000 production information for the two products is as follows: oil sludge activities expected use of driver expected use of driver processing 300 500 packaging 120,000 80,000 testing 1,600 400 the amount of overhead assigned to oil using abc isa. $1,800,000.
b. $1,657,500.
c. $1,942,500.
d. $1,380,000.

You are chairman of the board of a successful technology firm. there is a nominal federal corporate tax rate of 35 percent, yet the effective tax rate of the typical corporation is about 12.6%. your firm has been clever with use of transfer pricing and keeping money abroad and has barely paid any taxes over the last 5 years; during this same time period, profits were $28 billion. one member of the board feels that it is un-american to use various accounting strategies in order to avoid paying taxes. others feel that these are legal loopholes and corporations have a fiduciary responsibility to minimize taxes. one board member quoted what the ceo of exxon once said: “i’m not a u.s. company and i don’t make decisions based on what’s good for the u.s.” what are the alternatives? what are your recommendations? why do you recommend this course of action?

Sales at a fast-food restaurant average $6,000 per day. the restaurant decided to introduce an advertising campaign to increase daily sales. to determine the effectiveness of the advertising campaign, a sample of 49 days of sales were taken. they found that the average daily sales were $6,300 per day. from past history, the restaurant knew that its population standard deviation is about $1,000. if the level of significance is 0.01, have sales increased as a result of the advertising campaign? multiple choicea)fail to reject the null hypothesis.b)reject the null hypothesis and conclude the mean is higher than $6,000 per day.c)reject the null hypothesis and conclude the mean is lower than $6,000 per day.d)reject the null hypothesis and conclude that the mean is equal to $6,000 per day.expert answer

Ajax corp's sales last year were $435,000, its operating costs were $362,500, and its interest charges were $12,500. what was the firm's times-interest-earned (tie) ratio? a. 4.72b. 4.97c. 5.23d. 5.51e. 5.80