Niles Corporation is a manufacturer that uses job-order costing. The company has supplied the following data for the just completed year: Beginning inventories: Raw materials$47,000 Work in process$20,000 Estimated total manufacturing overhead at the beginning of the year$646,250 Estimated direct labor-hours at the beginning of the year 47,000direct labor-hours Results of operations: Raw materials purchased on account$538,000 Raw materials (all direct) requisitioned for use in production$535,000 Direct labor cost$699,000 Actual direct labor-hours 37,000direct labor-hours Manufacturing overhead: Indirect labor cost$134,000 Other manufacturing overhead costs incurred$453,000 Cost of goods manufactured$1,568,000 The ending balance in the Work in Process inventory account is: (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places.)

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.

On january 1, 2017, pharoah company issued 10-year, $2,020,000 face value, 6% bonds, at par. each $1,000 bond is convertible into 16 shares of pharoah common stock. pharoah’s net income in 2017 was $317,000, and its tax rate was 40%. the company had 97,000 shares of common stock outstanding throughout 2017. none of the bonds were converted in 2017. (a) compute diluted earnings per share for 2017. (round answer to 2 decimal places, e.g. $2.55.) diluted earnings per share

Krier industries has just completed its sales forecasts and its marketing department estimates that the company will sell 43,800 units during the upcoming year. in the past, management has maintained inventories of finished goods at approximately 3 months' sales. however, the estimated inventory at the start of the year of the budget period is only 7,300 units. sales occur evenly throughout the year. what is the estimated production level (units) for the first month of the upcoming budget year?