If you are reviewing the industry-low industry-average and industry-high values for the benchmarked data on pp. 6-7 of each issue of the FIR, which one of the following would you consider to be the most valid signal that one or more elements of your company's costs are likely to be too high relative to those of rival companies? A. When your company's reject rates for branded footwear are only 1.5% below the industry- average in those regions where the company has production operations.
B. Your company's total compensation package for production workers is about 10% above the industry average in those geographic regions where your company has production.
C. Your company's cost per S/Q star are only $1.50 below the industry-average in those regions where your company has production operations.
D. Your company's total production costs per branded pair and cost per branded pair sold are both within $1.50 of the industry high in the Asia-Pacific region.
E. Your company's distribution and warehouse expenses per pair sold in the Europe Africa operations region are about $3 per pair above the industry-low benchmark.

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?

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