Spruce Company uses a job costing system. Spruce Company's schedule of cost of goods manufactured showed the following amounts for the month ended August 31. Cost of goods manufactured $124,600 Cost of direct materials used $43,000 Cost of direct labor ($30 per hour) $76,800 Work in process inventory, August 1 $15,500Manufacturing overhead cost is allocated at the rate of $19 per direct labor hour. What is the amount of allocated manufacturing overhead costs for August

Acompany that makes shopping carts for supermarkets and other stores recently purchased some new equipment that reduces the labor content of the jobs needed to produce the shopping carts. prior to buying the new equipment, the company used 6 workers, who produced an average of 79 carts per hour. workers receive $16 per hour, and machine coast was $49 per hour. with the new equipment, it was possible to transfer one of the workers to another department, and equipment cost increased by $11 per hour while output increased by four carts per hour. a) compute the multifactor productivity (mfp) (labor plus equipment) under the prior to buying the new equipment. the mfp (carts/$) = (round to 4 decimal places). b) compute the productivity changes between the prior to and after buying the new equipment. the productivity growth = % (round to 2 decimal places)