Isooky has a spotter truck with a book value of $40,000 and a remaining useful life of five years. at the end of the five years the spotter truck will have a zero salvage value. the market value of the spotter truck is currently $32,000. isooky can purchase a new spotter truck for $120,000 and receive $31,000 in return for trading in its old spotter truck. the new spotter truck will reduce variable manufacturing costs by $25,000 per year over the five-year life of the new spotter truck. the total increase or decrease in income by replacing the current spotter truck with the new truck (ignoring the time value of money) is:
a. $31,000 decrease
b. $36,000 decrease
c. $31,000 increase
d. $120,000 decrease
e. $36,000 decrease
f. $36,000 increase
g. $120,000 decrease
h. $36,000 increase

Sweeten company had no jobs in progress at the beginning of march and no beginning inventories. the company has two manufacturing departments--molding and fabrication. it started, completed, and sold only two jobs during march—job p and job q. the following additional information is available for the company as a whole and for jobs p and q (all data and questions relate to the month of march): molding fabrication total estimated total machine-hours used 2,500 1,500 4,000 estimated total fixed manufacturing overhead $ 10,000 $ 15,000 $ 25,000 estimated variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour $ 1.40 $ 2.20 job p job q direct materials $ 13,000 $ 8,000 direct labor cost $ 21,000 $ 7,500 actual machine-hours used: molding 1,700 800 fabrication 600 900 total 2,300 1,700 sweeten company had no underapplied or overapplied manufacturing overhead costs during the month. required: for questions 1-8, assume that sweeten company uses a plantwide predetermined overhead rate with machine-hours as the allocation base. for questions 9-15, assume that the company uses departmental predetermined overhead rates with machine-hours as the allocation base in both departments. 1. what was the company’s plantwide predetermined overhead rate? (round your answer to 2 decimal places.) next

You meet that special person and get married. amazingly your spouse has exactly the same income you do 47,810. if your tax status is now married filing jointly what is your tax liability

As you have noticed, the demand for flip phones has drastically reduced, and there are only a few consumer electronics companies selling them at extremely low prices. also, the current buyers of flip phones are mainly categorized under laggards. which of the following stages of the industry life cycle is the flip phone industry in currently? a. growth stage b. maturity stage c. decline stage d. commercialization stage