Predetermined Overhead Rate, Application of Overhead to Jobs, Job Cost On April 1, Sangvikar Company had the following balances in its inventory accounts: Materials Inventory $12,670
Work-in-Process Inventory 21,090
Finished Goods Inventory 8,680

Work-in-process inventory is made up of three jobs with the following costs:

Job 114 Job 115 Job 116
Direct materials $2,360 $2,647 $3,807
Direct labor 1,780 1,540 4,120
Applied overhead 1,157 1,001 2,678

During April, Sangvikar experienced the transactions listed below. Materials purchased on account, $28,520. Materials requisitioned: Job 114, $16,190; Job 115, $12,340; and Job 116, $4,850. Job tickets were collected and summarized: Job 114, 170 hours at $11 per hour; Job 115, 210 hours at $14 per hour; and Job 116, 90 hours at $17 per hour. Overhead is applied on the basis of direct labor cost. Actual overhead was $4,590. Job 115 was completed and transferred to the finished goods warehouse. Job 115 was shipped, and the customer was billed for 125 percent of the cost.

Required:

a. Calculate the predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor cost.
b. Calculate the ending balance for each job as of April 30.

Mr. smith recently faced a choice between being (a) an economics profes-sor, which pays $60,000/yr, or (b) a safari leader, which pays $50,000/yr. after careful deliberation, smith took the safari job, but it was a close call. "for a dollar more," he said, "i'd have gone the other way."now smith's brother-in-law approaches him with a business proposition. the terms are as follows: - smith must resign his safari job to work full-time in his brother-in-law's business.- smith must give his brother-in-law an interest-free loan of $100,000, which will be repaid in full if and when smith leaves the business. (smith currently has much more than $100,000 in the the business will pay smith a salary of $70,000/yr. he will receive no other payment from the business. the interest rate is 10 percent per year. apart from salary considerations, smith feels that working in the business would be just as enjoyable as being an economics professor. for simplicity, assume there is no uncertainty regarding either smith's salary in the proposed business or the security of his monetary investment in it. should smith join his brother-in-law and, if so, how small would smith's salary from the business have to be to make it not worthwhile for him to join? if not, how large would smith's salary from the business have to be to make it worthwhile for him to join?

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Bernard made a gift of $500,000 to his brother in 2014. due to bernard’s prior taxable gifts he paid $200,000 of gift tax. when bernard died in 2019, the applicable gift tax credit had increased. at bernard’s death, what amount related to the $500,000 gift to his brother is included in his gross estate?