Although it is a small company, zorn enterprises owns a large number of inexpensive rental housing units in texas and louisiana. currently, the company is a chartered c corporation, but the owners are interested in switching to be an s corporation. after consulting a lawyer, they learned that zorn enterprises does not qualify to be designated as an s corporation. which of the following characteristics of zorn enterprises would prevent it from becoming an s corporation? a) the firm has fewer than 75 stockholders. b)the firm has only one class of stock, all owned by u. s. citizens. c)the firm receives more than 70 percent of its income from rents and other passive sources. d)the firm is chartered in one state, but owns property in another.

At the beginning of the accounting period, nutrition incorporated estimated that total fixed overhead cost would be $50,600 and that sales volume would be 10,000 units. at the end of the accounting period actual fixed overhead was $56,100 and actual sales volume was 11,000 units. nutrition uses a predetermined overhead rate and a cost plus pricing model to establish its sales price. based on this information the overhead spending variance is multiple choice $5,500 favorable. $440 favorable. $5,500 unfavorable. $440 unfavorable.

Big trail running company has started to produce running apparel in addition to the trail running shoes that they have manufactured for years. they feel that a departmental overhead rate would best reflect their overall manufacturing overhead usage. based on research the following information was gathered for the upcoming year: machining department finishing department estimated manufacturing overhead by department $ 600 comma 000 $ 400 comma 000 trail running shoes 440 comma 000 machine hours 11 comma 000 direct labor hours running apparel 60 comma 000 machine hours 39 comma 000 direct labor hours manufacturing overhead is driven by machine hours for the machining department and direct labor hours for the finishing department. at the end of the year, the following information was gathered related to the production of the trail running shoes and running apparel: machining department finishing department trail running shoes 442 comma 000 hours 10 comma 500 hours running apparel 57 comma 000 hours 40 comma 000 hours how much manufacturing overhead will be allocated to the trail running shoes

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