Laval produces lighting fixtures. Budgeted information for its two production departments follows. The departments use machine hours (MH) and direct labor hours (DLH). Fabricating Assembly Overhead cost $ 1,000,000 $ 384,000 Direct labor hours 125,000 DLH 48,000 DLH Machine hours 100,000 MH 82,500 MH Laval reports the following for one of its products, a desk lamp. Number of Units Fabricating Department Assembly Department Direct Labor Hours per Unit Machine Hours per Unit Direct Labor Hours per Unit Machine Hours per Unit Desk lamp 5,000 4 DLH per unit 2 MH per unit 1 DLH per unit 0.4 MH per unit Required: 1. Determine the plantwide overhead rate using 173,000 direct labor hours as the allocation base. 2. Determine the overhead cost per unit for the desk lamp using the plantwide overhead rate. 3. Compute departmental overhead rates based on machine hours in the Fabricating department and direct labor hours in the Assembly department. 4. Determine the overhead cost per unit for the desk lamp using the departmental overhead rates.

In march 2012, the state of california started requiring that all packaging for food and drink with the additive 4-methylimidazole (4-mi) be clearly labeled with a cancer warning. because of this, both pepsi and coke changed their formula to eliminate 4-mi as an ingredient. if pepsi and coke did not change their formula, holding all else constant, what would have happened to the demand for these goods, assuming pepsi and coke were in a competitive market? a. the demand curve for both pepsi and coke would have shifted to the right, causing the price of both products to decrease and the profits for the companies to fall. b. the demand curve for pepsi and coke would have remained unchanged, but the price of both products would have decreased and the profits for the companies would have fallen. c. the demand curve for pepsi and coke would have decreased, but the prices and profits would not have changed. d. the demand curve for only one of them would change because pepsi and coke are substitutes. e. the demand curve for pepsi and coke would have shifted to the left, causing the price of both products to decrease and the profits for both companies to fall.