Smith Machining makes three products. The company’s annual budget includes $1,048,000 of overhead. In the past, the company allocated overhead based on expected capacity of 40,000 direct labor hours. The company recently implemented an activity-based costing system and has determined that overhead costs can be broken into four overhead pools: order processing, setups, milling, and shipping. The following is a summary of company information: Expected Cost Expected Activities Order processing $ 226,800 14,000 orders Setups 157,850 4,100 setups Milling 395,850 20,300 machine hours Shipping 267,500 25,000 shipments $ 1,048,000 (a) Calculate the company’s overhead rate based on direct labor hours. (Round answer to 2 decimal places, e. g. 15.25.) Overhead rate $ / DLH (b) Calculate the company’s overhead rates using the activity-based costing pools. (Round answers to 2 decimal places, e. g. 15.25.) Order processing $ per order Setups $ per setup Milling $ per machine hour Shipping $ per shipment

Consider the local telephone company, a natural monopoly. the following graph shows the monthly demand curve for phone services and the company’s marginal revenue (mr), marginal cost (mc), and average total cost (atc) curves. 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 price (dollars per subscription) quantity (thousands of subscriptions) d mr mc atc 8, 60 suppose that the government has decided not to regulate this industry, and the firm is free to maximize profits, without constraints. complete the first row of the following table. pricing mechanism short run long-run decision quantity price profit (subscriptions) (dollars per subscription) profit maximization marginal-cost pricing average-cost pricing suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to marginal cost. complete the second row of the previous table. suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to average total cost. complete the third row of the previous table. under average-cost pricing, the government will raise the price of output whenever a firm’s costs increase, and lower the price whenever a firm’s costs decrease. over time, under the average-cost pricing policy, what will the local telephone company most likely do

Universal containers(us) has an integration with its accounting system that creates tens of thousands of orders inside salesforce in a nightly batch. us wants to add automation that can attempt to match leads and contacts to these orders using the email address field on the insert. us is concerned about the performance of the automation with a large data volume. which tool should uc use to automate this process?

Portia grant is an employee who is paid monthly. for the month of january of the current year, she earned a total of $8,388. the fica tax for social security is 6.2% of the first $118,500 earned each calendar year and the fica tax rate for medicare is 1.45% of all earnings. the futa tax rate of 0.6% and the suta tax rate of 5.4% are applied to the first $7,000 of an employee's pay. the amount of federal income tax withheld from her earnings was $1,391.77. what is the total amount of taxes withheld from the portia's earnings?