The country of jeenah was closed to foreign influences for almost one hundred years. due to a deteriorating economic situation, the country recently opened up its market to foreign companies. all of a sudden, consumers in jeenah faced an abundance of brand choices in various product categories, many of which were new products that locals had not heard of or used before. according to research, when do consumers usually use the country of origin as a cue when evaluating a product?

White company has two departments, cutting and finishing. the company uses a job-order costing system and computes a predetermined overhead rate in each department. the cutting department bases its rate on machine-hours, and the finishing department bases its rate on direct labor-hours. at the beginning of the year, the company made the following estimates: department cutting finishing direct labor-hours 6,000 30,000 machine-hours 48,000 5,000 total fixed manufacturing overhead cost $ 264,000 $ 366,000 variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour $ 2.00 " variable manufacturing overhead per direct labor-hour " $ 4.00 required: 1. compute the predetermined overhead rate for each department. 2. the job cost sheet for job 203, which was started and completed during the year, showed the following: department cutting finishing direct labor-hours 6 20 machine-hours 80 4 direct materials $ 500 $ 310 direct labor cost $ 108 $ 360 using the predetermined overhead rates that you computed in requirement (1), compute the total manufacturing cost assigned to job 203. 3. would you expect substantially different amounts of overhead cost to be assigned to some jobs if the company used a plantwide predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor-hours, rather than using departmental rates?

Kyle and alyssa paid $1,000 and $4,000 in qualifying expenses for their two daughters jane and jill, respectively, to attend the university of california. jane is a sophomore and jill is a freshman. kyle and alyssa's agi is $135,000 and they file a joint return. what is their allowable american opportunity tax credit after the credit phase-out based on agi is taken into account?

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