Crystal believes his company's overhead costs are driven (affected) by the number of machine hours because the production process is heavily automated. During the period, the company produced 4,000 units of Product A requiring a total of 400 machine hours and 3,000 units of Product B requiring a total of 100 machine hours. What allocation rate should be used if the company incurs overhead costs of $25,000

Retirement investment advisors, inc., has just offered you an annual interest rate of 4.4 percent until you retire in 40 years. you believe that interest rates will increase over the next year and you would be offered 5 percent per year one year from today. if you plan to deposit $13,000 into the account either this year or next year, how much more will you have when you retire if you wait one year to make your deposit?