Records at hal’s accounting services show the following costs for year 1. direct materials and supplies $ 41,000 employee costs 2,700,000 total overhead 1,280,000 production was 45,000 billable hours. fixed overhead was $700,000. assuming no change in billable hours in year 2, direct materials and supplies costs are expected to increase by 10 percent. direct labor costs are expected to increase by 15 percent. variable overhead per billable hour is expected to remain the same, but fixed overhead is expected to increase by 5 percent. required: a. year 2 production is expected to be 36,000 billable hours. what are the estimated direct materials, direct labor, variable overhead, and fixed overhead costs for year 2? b. determine the total costs per billable hour for year 1 and year 2.

4. the condition requires that only one of the selected criteria be true for a record to be displayed.

Suppose the marginal damage and marginal benefit curves in a polluted neighborhood are md = p/3 and mb = 4 – p. also, suppose that transactions costs are low, so that the consumers and the firm can bargain. we saw that in this case, the socially-optimal level of pollution is achieved. start by computing the socially-optimal p. then, for each of the following cases, compute the amount of money transferred through the bargaining process, and indicate who pays whom (i.e., whether consumers pay the firm, or vice versa). also, compute the gains to each party relative to the status quo (i.e., the starting point of the bargaining process).a)consumers have the right to clean air; firm is dominant in the bargaining process.b)consumers have the right to clean air; consumers are dominant in the bargaining process.c)firm has the right to pollute; firm is dominant in the bargaining process.d)firm has the right to pollute; consumers are dominant in the bargaining proces

The uptowner just paid an annual dividend of $4.12. the company has a policy of increasing the dividend by 2.5 percent annually. you would like to purchase shares of stock in this firm but realize that you will not have the funds to do so for another four years. if you require a rate of return of 16.7 percent, how much will you be willing to pay per share when you can afford to make this investment?