The Bright Lamp Company has budgeted its conversion cost for the small lamp production as $85,000 for 1,300 production hours. Each unit produced by the cell requires 15 minutes of process time. During the month, 3,800 units are manufactured in the cell. The estimated material cost is $18 per unit. Provide the following journal entries. ​ (a) Materials are purchased to produce 4,000 units. (b) Conversion costs are applied to 3,800 units of production. (Please round to nearest cent.) (c) 3,650 units are placed into finished goods.

Amanufacturing firm is considering overhauling the existing compensation strategy. currently every front line employee who works on the assembly line earns the same hourly wage. ideally, management would like to institute a new pay system that involves pay-for-performance. which of the following recommendations is both consistent with scientific management's general emphases and generally good advice for management of this firma. the firm should adopt a differential pay system with one pay level for average performance, and a higher level for good performance. b. the firm should adopt a differential pay system, but the firm should modify it from its original design and provide many different levels of pay associated with different performance levels. c. the firm should understand worker psychology and to focus on pay as the key motivator. d. all of the abovee. none of the above