Product safety has become a hot topic for businesses around the world. The purpose of product safety policies and legislation is to keep consumers safe, with the expectation that product quality is balanced against business profits. How does a company factor these competing expectations and still hold the consumer responsible for safe and effective use of the product

Moody corporation uses a job-order costing system with a plantwide predetermined overhead rate based on machine-hours. at the beginning of the year, the company made the following estimates: machine-hours required to support estimated production 100,000 fixed manufacturing overhead cost $ 650,000 variable manufacturing overhead cost per machine-hour $ 3.00 required: 1. compute the plantwide predetermined overhead rate. 2. during the year, job 400 was started and completed. the following information was available with respect to this job: direct materials $ 450 direct labor cost $ 210 machine-hours used 40