Sultan Company uses an activity-based costing system. At the beginning of the year, the company made the following estimates of cost and activity for its five activity cost pools: Activity Cost Pool Activity Measure Expected Overhead Cost Expected Activity Labor-related Direct labor-hours $ 390,600 43,400 DLHs Purchase orders Number of orders $ 8,600 215 orders Parts management Number of part types $ 94,160 107 part types Board etching Number of boards $ 60,550 1,730 boards General factory Machine-hours $ 220,800 18,400 MHs Required: 1. Compute the activity rate for each of the activity cost pools. 2. The expected activity for the year was distributed among the company’s four products as follows:

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You are the manager of the packaging department in a cookie factory. (obviously, the packaging employees cannot eat the cookies that are transferred in during the period.) after your employees insert cookies into colorful packages (step 1) for display on store shelves, the packages of cookies are then boxed using cardboard cartons (step 2) for shipment to stores. each unit of product is represented by a carton of packaged cookies. the packaging department began the period with 1,000 units of cookies. during the period, 5,000 units of cookies were transferred in from the baking department and 5,500 units of cookies were transferred out to the finished goods department. the number of units of cookies in the ending inventory of the packaging department equals:

Alpha industries is considering a project with an initial cost of $8 million. the project will produce cash inflows of $1.49 million per year for 8 years. the project has the same risk as the firm. the firm has a pretax cost of debt of 5.61 percent and a cost of equity of 11.27 percent. the debt–equity ratio is .60 and the tax rate is 35 percent. what is the net present value of the project?