Two stage abc for manufacturing
assume sherwin-williams company, a large paint manufacturer, has determined the following activity costs pools and cost driver levels for the latest period:

activity cost pool activity cost activity cost driver
machine setup $950,000 2,500 setup hours
material handling 820,000 5,000 materials moves
machine operation 200,000 20,000 machine hours

the following data are for the production of single batches of two products, mirlite and subdue:
mirlite subdue
gallons purchased 50,000 30,000
direct labor hours 400 250
machine hours 800 250
direct labor cost $10,000 $7,500
direct materials cost $350,000 $150,000
setup hours 15 12
material moves 60 35
determine the batch and unit costs per gallon of mirlite and subdue using abc.

What impact did the economic opportunities in pennsylvania and new york have on virginia? a. virginia planters started to migrate to new york. b. new yorkers began buying up cheap virginia real estate. c. virginians found themselves resorting increasingly to slavery. d. virginians loosened their slave laws to attract more migrants.

Ummit record company is negotiating with two banks for a $157,000 loan. fidelity bank requires a compensating balance of 24 percent, discounts the loan, and wants to be paid back in four quarterly payments. southwest bank requires a compensating balance of 12 percent, does not discount the loan, but wants to be paid back in 12 monthly installments. the stated rate for both banks is 9 percent. compensating balances will be subtracted from the $157,000 in determining the available funds in part a. a-1. calculate the effective interest rate for fidelity bank and southwest bank. (do not round intermediate calculations. input your answers as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.) a-2. which loan should summit accept? southwest bank fidelity bank b. recompute the effective cost of interest, assuming that summit ordinarily maintains $37,680 at each bank in deposits that will serve as compensating balances

Label each of the following statements true, false, or uncertain. explain your choice carefully. a. workers benefit equally from the process of creative destruction. b. in the past two decades, the real wages of low-skill u. s. workers have declined relative to the real wages of high-skill workers. c. technological progress leads to a decrease in employment if, and only if, the increase in output is smaller than the increase in productivity. d. the apparent decrease in the natural rate of unemployment in the united states in the second-half of the 1990s can be explained by the fact that productivity growth was unexpectedly high during that period.