Excel Corporation's financial statements for last month show a $10,000 decrease in cash, a $7,000 increase in notes payable, and a $17,000 increase in equipment, all of which occurred on the same date. Taken collectively, what do these three entries suggest? A : They suggest that Excel purchased a $17,000 piece of equipment by paying $10,000 in cash and taking out a $7,000 loan. B : They suggest that Excel sold a $17,000 piece of equipment for $10,000 and therefore recorded a $7,000 loss. C : They suggest that Excel sold a $10,000 piece of equipment for $17,000 and therefore recorded a $10,000 gain. D : They suggest that Excel purchased a $7,000 piece of equipment but mistakenly recorded a purchase price of $17,000.

Actual usage for the year by the marketing department was 70,000 copies and by the operations department was 330,000 copies. if a dual-rate cost-allocation method is used, what amount of copying facility costs will be budgeted for the operations department?

Sweeten company had no jobs in progress at the beginning of march and no beginning inventories. the company has two manufacturing departments--molding and fabrication. it started, completed, and sold only two jobs during march—job p and job q. the following additional information is available for the company as a whole and for jobs p and q (all data and questions relate to the month of march): molding fabrication total estimated total machine-hours used 2,500 1,500 4,000 estimated total fixed manufacturing overhead $ 10,000 $ 15,000 $ 25,000 estimated variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour $ 1.40 $ 2.20 job p job q direct materials $ 13,000 $ 8,000 direct labor cost $ 21,000 $ 7,500 actual machine-hours used: molding 1,700 800 fabrication 600 900 total 2,300 1,700 sweeten company had no underapplied or overapplied manufacturing overhead costs during the month. required: for questions 1-8, assume that sweeten company uses a plantwide predetermined overhead rate with machine-hours as the allocation base. for questions 9-15, assume that the company uses departmental predetermined overhead rates with machine-hours as the allocation base in both departments. 1. what was the company’s plantwide predetermined overhead rate? (round your answer to 2 decimal places.) next

Which of the following has the largest impact on opportunity cost