Saltwell Industries received $11,500,000 for the issuance of its stock on May 14. The par value of the Saltwell stock was only $11,500. Was the excess amount of $11,488,500 a profit to Saltwell? If not, what was it? Suppose the par value of the Saltwell stock had been $2 per share, $4 per share, or $7 per share. Would a change in the par value of the company's stock affect Saltwell's total paid-in capital? Give the reason for your answer.

Mno corporation uses a job-order costing system with a predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor-hours. the company based its predetermined overhead rate for the current year on the following data: total estimated direct labor-hours 50,000 total estimated fixed manufacturing overhead cost $ 285,000 estimated variable manufacturing overhead per direct labor-hour $ 3.80 recently, job p123 was completed with the following characteristics: total actual direct labor-hours 20 direct materials $ 710 direct labor cost $ 500 the amount of overhead applied to job p123 is closest to: