Big Red Company, a manufacturer of computer hardware components, uses direct labor cost to allocate its production overhead. In its hard-drive division, it allocates $12.50 per direct labor hour as the standard rate. The overhead includes supervision and machine setup cost. SCSI and SATA drives take the same time to produce, but the setup time for SATA is three times as long as the setup time for SCSI. The company will describe machine setup activity as a(n) activity.

A
product-level

B
unit-level

C
batch-level

D
organization-level

How could brian, who doesn't want his car insurance premiums to increase, show he poses a low risk to his insurance company? a: drive safely to avoid accidents and traffic citations b: wash and wax his car regularly to keep it clean c: allow unlicensed drivers to drive carelessly in his car d: incur driver's license points from breaking driving laws

Wallis company manufactures only one product and uses a standard cost system. the company uses a predetermined plantwide overhead rate that relies on direct labor-hours as the allocation base. all of the company's manufacturing overhead costs are fixed—it does not incur any variable manufacturing overhead costs. the predetermined overhead rate is based on a cost formula that estimated $2,886,000 of fixed manufacturing overhead for an estimated allocation base of 288,600 direct labor-hours. wallis does not maintain any beginning or ending work in process inventory.

If the family’s net monthly income is 7,800 what percent of the income is spent on food clothing and housing?