Jake’s battery company has two service departments, maintenance and personnel. maintenance department costs of $160,000 are allocated on the basis of budgeted maintenance-hours. personnel department costs of $40,000 are allocated based on the number of employees. the costs of operating departments a and b are $80,000 and $120,000, respectively. data on budgeted maintenance-hours and number of employees are as follows: support departments production departments maintenance department personnel department a b budgeted costs $160,000 $40,000 $80,000 $120,000 budgeted maintenance-hours na 400 480 320 number of employees 20 na 80 240 using the direct method, what amount of maintenance department costs will be allocated to department b? group of answer choices

a. $48,000
b. $64,000
c. $78,000
d. $96,000

Peninsula products has just applied for a loan at your bank. when reviewing peninsula's books for the year that just ended, you notice that the firm uses the fair value option for its bonds payable. you also see that the firm recorded a $55,000 debit in its bonds payable account and a $55,000 credit in its unrealized holding gain or loss"income account. over that same period, interest rates decreased by about 0.5 percent. how should this information affect the bank's decision as to whether to grant peninsula a loan? a : the bank should strongly consider giving a loan to peninsula because the changes in firm's bonds payable and unrealized holding gain or loss"income accounts suggest that peninsula has seen an increase in its credit rating over the past year. b : the bank should put little emphasis on the changes in peninsula's bonds payable and unrealized holding gain or loss"income accounts because these changes are likely the result of the rise in interest rates. c : the bank should hesitate before giving a loan to peninsula because the changes in firm's bonds payable and unrealized holding gain or loss"income accounts suggest that peninsula has seen a decline in its credit rating over the past year. d : the bank should put little emphasis on the changes in peninsula's bonds payable and unrealized holding gain or loss"income accounts because these changes are likely unrelated to either interest rates or the firm's credit rating.

Acompany factory is considered which type of resource a. land b. physical capital c. labor d. human capital

In mexico, many garment or sewing shops found they could entice many young people to work for them if they offered clean, air conditioned work areas with high-quality locker rooms to clean up in after the work day. typically, traditional garment shops had to offer to get workers to apply for the hard, repetitive, and somewhat dangerous work. a. benchmark competitive wages b. compensating differentials c. monopoly wages d. wages based on human capital development of each employee