Platt Company produces one product, a putter called PAR-putter. Platt uses a standard cost system and determines that it should take one hour of direct labor to produce one PAR-putter. The normal production capacity for this putter is 100,000 units per year. The total budgeted overhead at normal capacity is $500,000 comprised of $200,000 of variable costs and $300,000 of fixed costs. Platt applies overhead on the basis of direct labor hours. During the current year, Platt produced 85,000 putters, worked 89,000 direct labor hours, and incurred variable overhead costs of $160,000 and fixed overhead costs of $300,000. Required:
Compute the predetermined variable overhead rate and the predetermined fixed overhead rate.

You are the manager of the packaging department in a cookie factory. (obviously, the packaging employees cannot eat the cookies that are transferred in during the period.) after your employees insert cookies into colorful packages (step 1) for display on store shelves, the packages of cookies are then boxed using cardboard cartons (step 2) for shipment to stores. each unit of product is represented by a carton of packaged cookies. the packaging department began the period with 1,000 units of cookies. during the period, 5,000 units of cookies were transferred in from the baking department and 5,500 units of cookies were transferred out to the finished goods department. the number of units of cookies in the ending inventory of the packaging department equals:

Which of the following is not an example of one of the four mail advantages of prices on a free market economy

Schonhardt corporation's relevant range of activity is 2,500 units to 5,500 units. when it produces and sells 4,000 units, its average costs per unit are as follows: averagecost per unitdirect materials $ 7.60direct labor $ 2.90variable manufacturing overhead $ 1.65fixed manufacturing overhead $ 2.90fixed selling expense $ 0.95fixed administrative expense $ 0.65sales commissions $ 0.75variable administrative expense $ 0.65if 4,500 units are produced, the total amount of fixed manufacturing cost incurred is closest to: multiple choicea $16,800b $11,400c $11,600d $15,400