Banes Co. incurs $350,000 of overhead costs each year in its three main departments, machining ($200,000), inspections ($100,000) and packing ($50,000). The machining department works 4,000 hours per year, there are 500 inspections per year, and the packing department packs 500 orders per year. Information about Banes's two products is as follows: Product X Product Y
Machining hours 1,000 3,000
Inspections 100 500
Orders packed 350 650
Direct labor hours 1,700 1,800

If traditional costing based on direct labor hours is used, how much overhead is assigned to Product X this year?
A) $84,167
B) $121,154
C) $170,000
D) $175,000

Visburg concrete company pours concrete slabs for single-family dwellings. lancing construction company, which operates outside visburg's normal sales territory, asks visburg to pour 40 slabs for lancing's new development of homes. visburg has the capacity to build 300 slabs and is presently working on 250 of them. lancing is willing to pay only $3, 300 per slab. visburg estimates the cost of a typical job to include unit-level materials, $1, 440: unit-level labor, $720: and an allocated portion of facility-level overhead, $1, 200. required calculate the contribution to profit from the special order. should visburg accept or reject the special order to pour 40 slabs for $3, 300 each?

Avx home entertainment, inc., recently began a “no-hassles” return policy. a sample of 500 customers who recently returned items showed 400 thought the policy was fair, 32 thought it took too long to complete the transaction, and the rest had no opinion. on the basis of this information, make an inference about customer reaction to the new policy. (round your answers to 1 decimal place.)

Suppose that electricity producers create a negative externality equal to $5 per unit. further suppose that the government imposes a $5 per-unit tax on the producers. what is the relationship between the after-tax equilibrium quantity and the socially optimal quantity of electricity to be produced?