Pied paper corporation manufacturers safety whistle keychains. they have the following information available to prepare their master budget:

? units to be produced
october 4,500
november 4,750
december 5,200

pied piper corporation sells each whistle for $12. it takes 3 ounces of metal to produce each whistle and metal costs $0.50 per ounce. they want to have ending inventory equal to 10% of direct materials required for the following month's production. what is the total cost of direct material purchases for october?

On january 8, the end of the first weekly pay period of the year, regis company's payroll register showed that its employees earned $22,760 of office salaries and $70,840 of sales salaries. withholdings from the employees' salaries include fica social security taxes at the rate of 6.20%, fica medicare taxes at the rate of 1.45%, $13,260 of federal income taxes, $1,450 of medical insurance deductions, and $860 of union dues. no employee earned more than $7,000 in this first pay period. required: 1.1 calculate below the amounts for each of these four taxes of regis company. regis’s merit rating reduces its state unemployment tax rate to 3% of the first $7,000 paid to each employee. the federal unemployment tax rate is 0.60