The following data relate to the Torrence Company for May and August of the current year: May August Maintenance hours 25,000 30,000 Maintenance cost $1,212,000 $1,287,000 May and August were the lowest and highest activity levels, and Torrence uses the high-low method to analyze cost behavior. Which of the following statements is true?a. The fixed maintenance cost is $725,000 per month. b. The variable maintenance cost is $43 per hour. c. The variable maintenance cost is $47 per hour. d. More than one of the other answers is true. e. The variable maintenance cost is $45 per hour.

White company has two departments, cutting and finishing. the company uses a job-order costing system and computes a predetermined overhead rate in each department. the cutting department bases its rate on machine-hours, and the finishing department bases its rate on direct labor-hours. at the beginning of the year, the company made the following estimates: department cutting finishing direct labor-hours 6,000 30,000 machine-hours 48,000 5,000 total fixed manufacturing overhead cost $ 264,000 $ 366,000 variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour $ 2.00 " variable manufacturing overhead per direct labor-hour " $ 4.00 required: 1. compute the predetermined overhead rate for each department. 2. the job cost sheet for job 203, which was started and completed during the year, showed the following: department cutting finishing direct labor-hours 6 20 machine-hours 80 4 direct materials $ 500 $ 310 direct labor cost $ 108 $ 360 using the predetermined overhead rates that you computed in requirement (1), compute the total manufacturing cost assigned to job 203. 3. would you expect substantially different amounts of overhead cost to be assigned to some jobs if the company used a plantwide predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor-hours, rather than using departmental rates?

If a team of three workers, each making the u.s. federal minimum wage, produced these 12 rugs, what would the total labor cost be? don't forget that these workers would be working overtime.

Which of the following distribution systems offers speed and reliability when emergency supplies are needed overseas? a. railroadsb. airfreightc. truckingd. pipelinese. waterways