Royal Rotisserie Company, a manufacturer of kitchen ovens, had the following activities, allocated costs, and allocation bases: Activities Allocated Costs Allocation Base Account inquiry (hours) $ 80 comma 000 2 comma 900 hours Account billing (lines) $ 35 comma 000 17 comma 000 lines Account verification (accounts) $ 11 comma 000 30 comma 000 accounts Correspondence (letters) $ 14 comma 000 1 comma 400 letters The above activities are carried out at two of its regional offices. Activities Northeast Office Midwest Office Account inquiry (hours) 140 hours 250 hours Account billing (lines) 14 comma 000 lines 8 comma 000 lines Account verification (accounts) 1 comma 500 accounts 600 accounts Correspondence (letters) 70 letters 100 letters How much of the account inquiry cost will be assigned to the Midwest Office? (Round any intermediate calculations to two decimal places and your final answer to the nearest dollar.)

The winston company estimates that the factory overhead for the following year will be $1,250,000. the company has decided that the basis for applying factory overhead should be machine hours, which is estimated to be 50,000 hours. the total machine hours for the year were 54,300. the actual factory overhead for the year were $1,375,000. determine the over- or underapplied amount for the year.

Ajustification for job training programs is that they improve worker productivity. suppose that you are asked to evaluate whether more job training makes workers more productive. however, rather than having data on individual workers, you have access to data on manufacturing firms in ohio. in particu- lar, for each firm, you have information on hours of job training per worker (training) and number of nondefective items produced per worker hour (output). (i) carefully state the ceteris paribus thought experiment underlying this policy question. (ii) does it seem likely that a firm’s decision to train its workers will be independent of worker characteristics? what are some of those measurable and unmeasurable worker characteristics? (iii) name a factor other than worker characteristics that can affect worker productivity. (iv) if you find a positive correlation between output and training, would you have convincingly established that job training makes workers more productive? explain.

What would happen to the equilibrium price and quantity of lattés if the cost to produce steamed milk