Thompson stime masters produced and sold 30,000 alarm clocks last year. Thompson's profit report follows:

sales (30,000 units) $600,000
less:
direct materials 210,000
direct labor 150,000
unit-related overhead 90,000
selling costs 30,000
contribution margin $120,000
less:
batch-related costs 12,000
product-sustaining 10,000
facility-sustaining costs 94,000
profit $4,000 this year

Thompson again expects to sell 30,000 alarm clocks through normal channels. in addition, a hotel management company wants to place an order for 5,000 clocks for a new hotel being built; however, the company wants a 20 percent discount on the normal selling price. the selling cost per unit will not be incurred on this order because no commission will be paid. one additional production run will be required at a cost of $2,000. product sustaining costs will not be incurred. Thompson has the capacity to produce the additional 5,000 clocks.

should Thompson accept or reject the special order?

The following cost data pertain to the operations of montgomery department stores, inc., for the month of july. corporate legal office salaries $ 75,300apparel department cost of sales"evendale store $ 97,200corporate headquarters building lease $ 50,300store manager's salary"evendale store $ 12,900apparel department sales commission"evendale store $ 11,550store utilities"evendale store $ 12,800apparel department manager's salary"evendale store $ 10,450central warehouse lease cost $ 18,600janitorial costs"evendale store $ 11,800 the evendale store is just one of many stores owned and operated by the company. the apparel department is one of many departments at the evendale store. the central warehouse serves all of the company's stores. required: 1. what is the total amount of the costs listed above that are direct costs of the apparel department? 2. what is the total amount of the costs listed above that are direct costs of the evendale store? 3. what is the total amount of the apparel department's direct costs that are also variable costs with respect to total departmental sales?

Wallis company manufactures only one product and uses a standard cost system. the company uses a predetermined plantwide overhead rate that relies on direct labor-hours as the allocation base. all of the company's manufacturing overhead costs are fixed—it does not incur any variable manufacturing overhead costs. the predetermined overhead rate is based on a cost formula that estimated $2,886,000 of fixed manufacturing overhead for an estimated allocation base of 288,600 direct labor-hours. wallis does not maintain any beginning or ending work in process inventory.

Which one of the following statements is true? ddt does not prevent disease from passing from agricultural animals to humans. cost was a major factor in the united states government's decision to ban ddt. many african governments concluded that the potential long-term health effects of ddt were not as serious as the immediate problem of insect control. ddt cannot accumulate in the fat of animals. the ddt ban in the united states has made it very difficult to control agricultural insect pests.