During the month of july, pittsburgh resident b. fly must make four round-trip flights between pittsburgh and

chicago. the dates of the trips are as shown in table 87. b. fly must purchase four round-trip tickets. without a discounted fare, a round-trip ticket between pittsburgh and chicago costs $500. if fly’s stay in a city includes a weekend, then he gets a 20% discount on the round-trip fare. if his stay in a city is at least 21 days, then he receives a 35% discount; and if his stay is more than 10 days, then he receives a 30% discount. of course, only one discount can be applied toward the purchase of any ticket. formulate and solve an assignment problem that minimizes the total cost of purchasing the four round-trip tickets. (hint: let xij 1 if a round-trip ticket is purchased for use on the ith flight out of pittsburgh and the jth flight out of chicago. also think about where fly should buy a ticket if, for example, x21 1.)

leave pittsburg leave chiago
monday, july 1 friday, july 5
tuesday, july 9 thursday, july 11
monday, july 15 friday, july 19
wednesday, july 24 thursday, july 25

Zachary company produces commercial gardening equipment. since production is highly automated, the company allocates its overhead costs to product lines using activity-based costing. the costs and cost drivers associated with the four overhead activity cost pools follow: activities unit level batch level product level facility level cost $ 64,800 $ 27,730 $ 15,000 $ 154,000 cost driver 2,400 labor hrs. 47 setups percentage of use 11,000 units production of 780 sets of cutting shears, one of the company’s 20 products, took 240 labor hours and 7 setups and consumed 15 percent of the product-sustaining activities. required: (a) had the company used labor hours as a company wide allocation base, how much overhead would it have allocated to the cutting shears? (b) how much overhead is allocated to the cutting shears using activity-based costing? (c) compute the overhead cost per unit for cutting shears first using activity-based costing and then using direct labor hours for allocation if 780 units are produced. if direct product costs are $150 and the product is priced at 30 percent above cost for what price would the product sell under each allocation system? (d) assuming that activity-based costing provides a more accurate estimate of cost, indicate whether the cutting shears would be over- or underpriced if direct labor hours are used as an allocation base. explain how over-or undercosting can affect vaulker's profitability. (e) comment on the validity of using the allocated facility-level cost in the pricing decision. should other costs be considered in a cost- plus pricing decision? if so, which ones? what costs would you include if you were trying to decide whether to accept a special order?

Alinguist had a gross income of 53,350 last year. if 17.9% of his income got witheld for federal income tax, how much of the linguist's pay got witheld for federal income tax last year?

Ahospital purchases a $500,000 magnetic resonance imaging (mri) machine that has a useful life of 9 years. the salvage value at the end of 9 years is $77,000. (a) write a linear equation that describes the value y (in dollars) of the mri machine in terms of the time t (in years), 0 ≤ t ≤ 9. (b) find the value, in dollars, of the machine after 6 years. $ (c) find the time, in years, when the value of the equipment will be $140,000. (round your answer to two decimal places.) yr