Berry Co. produces a variety of scissors and other cutting instruments at its Rome manufacturing plant. The plant is highly automated and uses an activity-based costing system to allocate overhead costs to its various product lines. The company expects to produce 24,000 total units during the current period. The costs and cost drivers associated with four activity cost pools are given below:

ACTIVITIES: UNIT BATCH PRODUCT FACILITY
LEVEL LEVEL LEVEL LEVEL
Cost $70,000 ? $23,000 $240,000
Cost Driver 5,000 labor hrs 120 set ups % of use 30,000 units

Production of 2,000 units of a pipe-cutting tool required 600 labor hours, 16 setups, and consumed 35 % of the product sustaining activities and resulted in an overhead allocation of $34,850. What amount of batch-level overhead costs was expected during the period? (Do not round intermediate calculations.)
a. $2,400
b. $18,000
c. $32,450
d. None of these answers is correct.

Aprice ceiling is “binding” if the price ceiling is set below the equilibrium price. suppose that the equilibrium price is $5. if a price ceiling is set at $6, this will not affect the market in any way since $5 remains a legally allowable price (since $5 < $6). a price ceiling of $6 is called a “non-binding” price ceiling. on the other hand, if the price ceiling is set at $4, the price ceiling is “binding” because the natural equilibrium price is $5 but that is no longer allowed. what happens when there is a binding price ceiling? at a price below the equilibrium price, quantity demanded exceeds quantity supplied. there is a shortage. normally, price increases eliminate shortages by increasing quantity supplied and decreasing quantity demanded. in this case, however, price increases are not allowed past the price ceiling. we therefore predict that the observed market price will be right at the price ceiling and there will be a permanent shortage. the observed quantity bought and sold will be dictated by the quantity supplied at the price ceiling. although consumers would like to buy more, there are no more units for sale

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Exercise 7-7 martinez company reports the following financial information before adjustments. dr. cr. accounts receivable $168,900 allowance for doubtful accounts $3,200 sales revenue (all on credit) 849,300 sales returns and allowances 50,440 prepare the journal entry to record bad debt expense assuming martinez company estimates bad debts at (a) 4% of accounts receivable and (b) 4% of accounts receivable but allowance for doubtful accounts had a $1,550 debit balance. (if no entry is required, select "no entry" for the account titles and enter 0 for the amounts. credit account titles are automatically indented when the amount is entered. do not indent manually.)