Armer Company is accumulating data to use in preparing its annual profit plan for the coming year. The cost behavior pattern of the maintenance costs must be determined. The accounting staff has suggested the use of linear regression to derive an equation for maintenance hours and costs. Data regarding the maintenance hours and costs for the last year and the results of the regression analysis follow: Month
Maintenance Cost
Machine Hours
Jan.
$
4,200

480

Feb.

3,000

320

Mar.

3,600

400

Apr.

2,820

300

May

4,350

500

June

2,960

310

July

3,030

320

Aug.

4,470

520

Sept.

4,260

490

Oct.

4,050

470

Nov.

3,300

350

Dec.

3,160

340

Sum
$
43,200

4,800

Average
$
3,600

$
400

Average cost per hour

$
9.00

a (intercept)

$
684.65

b (coefficient)

7.2884

Standard error of the estimate

34.469

R-squared

0.99724

t-value for b

60.105

At 400 hours of activity, Armer management can be approximately two-thirds confident that the maintenance costs will be in the range of

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.

The production manager of rordan corporation has submitted the following quarterly production forecast for the upcoming fiscal year: 1st quarter 2nd quarter 3rd quarter 4th quarter units to be produced 10,800 8,500 7,100 11,200 each unit requires 0.25 direct labor-hours, and direct laborers are paid $20.00 per hour. required: 1. prepare the company’s direct labor budget for the upcoming fiscal year. assume that the direct labor workforce is adjusted each quarter to match the number of hours required to produce the forecasted number of units produced. 2. prepare the company’s direct labor budget for the upcoming fiscal year, assuming that the direct labor workforce is not adjusted each quarter. instead, assume that the company’s direct labor workforce consists of permanent employees who are guaranteed to be paid for at least 2,500 hours of work each quarter. if the number of required direct labor-hours is less than this number, the workers are paid for 2,500 hours anyway. any hours worked in excess of 2,500 hours in a quarter are paid at the rate of 1.5 times the normal hourly rate for direct labor.

Presented below is information for annie company for the month of march 2018. cost of goods sold $245,000 rent expense $ 36,000 freight-out 7,000 sales discounts 8,000 insurance expense 5,000 sales returns and allowances 11,000 salaries and wages expense 63,000 sales revenue 410,000 instructions prepare the income statement.