The lucas manufacturing company has two production departments (fabrication and assembly) and three service departments (general factory administration, factory maintenance, and factory cafeteria). a summary of costs and other data for each department, prior to allocation of service department costs for the year ended june 30, appears below. the costs of the general factory administration department, factory maintenance department, and factory cafeteria are allocated on the basis of direct labor hours, square footage occupied, and number of employees, respectively. fabrication assembly general factory admin. factory maint. factory cafeteria direct labor costs: $1,950,000 $2,050,000 direct material costs: $3,130,000 $ 950,000 factory overhead costs: $1,650,000 $1,850,000 $80,000 $67,500 $58,000 direct labor hours: 237,690 387,810 number of employees: 160 128 20 42 25 sq. footage occupied: 20,000 30,000 2,400 2,000 4,800 assuming that lucas elects to distribute service department costs to production departments using the direct distribution method, the amount of factory maintenance department costs that would be allocated to the fabrication department would be (round all final calculations to the nearest dollar): group of answer choices $22,804. $15,000. $27,000. $14,674.

The hawthorne works was a large western electric factory with 45,000 employees. during the 1920s and 1930s, hawthorne works was the site of some well-known industrial studies. in one of the studies, researchers investigated the impact of different working conditions on worker productivity. prior to the start of the study, researchers secretly measured workers' productivity for several weeks. then researchers chose two workers, who then chose their own teams. the teams were separated from the general workforce and completed their work in different experiment rooms where the researchers could observe them more easily. over a 5-year period researchers manipulated the structure of the workday for each team (number and duration of breaks and number of hours per shift). for each of these changes in working conditions, the researchers measured the effect on productivity. for some conditions, such as frequent short breaks, workers rebelled by intentionally decreasing productivity. why did the researchers secretly measure the workers' productivity before creating the two treatment groups? a, to create similar treatment groups so that a cause-and-effect relationship could be establishedb, to draw conclusions about the productivity of all workers in the plant based on the test groupsc, to directly control for confounding variablesd, to provide a baseline for measuring worker productivity

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For each of the following users of financial accounting information and managerial accounting information, specify whether the user would primarily use financial accounting information or managerial accounting information or both: 1. sec examiner 2. bookkeeping department 3. division controller 4. external auditor (public accounting firm) 5. loan officer at the company's bank 6. state tax agency auditor 7. board of directors 8. manager of the service department 9. wall street analyst 10. internal auditor 11. potential investors 12, current stockholders 13. reporter from the wall street journal 14. regional division managers