Exercise 7-13 computing abc product costs [lo7-3, lo7-4] fogerty company makes two products—titanium hubs and sprockets. data regarding the two products follow: direct labor-hours per unit annual production hubs 0.70 14,000 units sprockets 0.30 46,000 units additional information about the company follows: hubs require $20 in direct materials per unit, and sprockets require $18. the direct labor wage rate is $14 per hour. hubs require special equipment and are more complex to manufacture than sprockets. the abc system has the following activity cost pools: estimated activity activity cost pool (activity measure) overhead cost hubs sprockets total machine setups (number of setups) $ 14,850 75 60 135 special processing (machine-hours) $ 126,000 4,200 0 4,200 general factory (organization-sustaining) $ 134,000 na na na

required:

1. compute the activity rate for each activity cost pool.
2. determine the unit product cost of each product according to the abc system.

Portia grant is an employee who is paid monthly. for the month of january of the current year, she earned a total of $8,388. the fica tax for social security is 6.2% of the first $118,500 earned each calendar year and the fica tax rate for medicare is 1.45% of all earnings. the futa tax rate of 0.6% and the suta tax rate of 5.4% are applied to the first $7,000 of an employee's pay. the amount of federal income tax withheld from her earnings was $1,391.77. what is the total amount of taxes withheld from the portia's earnings?

Carlos hears juan and rita’s complaints about the new employees with whom they have to work with, as well as their threats to quit the company. if carlos were to reassign juan and rita to new, unique roles and separate them from the ronny and bill, it would signal that carlos has moved into the stage of managing resistance.

Problem 3: access control pokeygram, a cutting-edge new email start-up, is setting up building access for its employees. there are two types of employees: managers and engineers, and there are three departments: security, networking, and human resoures. each employee works in a single department, and each department is housed on a different floor. managers are allowed access to any floor, while engineers are allowed access only to their own floor. there are three badge-operated elevators, each going up to only one distinct floor. every employee has one badge. pokeygram wants to use the best possible access control method in order to minimize delay for the elevators (a) access control matrix, 1. which of the following would you recommend that pokeygram use: (b) access control lists, or (c) capabilities? make sure to justify your answer. 2. what, if any, would be the benefits (and/or disadvantages) of using rbac (role-based access control) in this situation? keep your solution for this problem limited to 10-12 lines of text.