Abbeville Fixture Company manufactures faucets in a small manufacturing facility. The faucets are made from brass. Manufacturing has 80 employees. Each employee presently provides 36 hours of labor per week. Information about a production week is as follows: SHOW WORK!! Standard wage per hr. $15.00 Standard labor time per faucet 30 min. Standard number of lbs. of brass per faucet 2 lbs. Standard price per lb. of brass $2.40 Actual price per lb. of brass $2.60 Actual lbs. of brass used during the week 11,350 lbs. Number of faucets produced during the week 4,700 Actual wage per hr. $16.50 Actual hours for the week (80 employees x 36 hours) 2,880 A. What is the standard cost per unit for direct materials? B. What is the standard cost per unit for direct labor? C. What is the Direct Materials Price Variance? Favorable or unfavorable (Circle one) D. What is the Direct Materials Quantity Variance? Favorable or unfavorable (Circle on

For june, gold corp. estimated sales revenue at $600,000. it pays sales commissions that are 4% of sales. the sales manager's salary is $285,000, estimated shipping expenses total 1% of sales, and miscellaneous selling expenses are $15,000. how much are budgeted selling expenses for the month of july if sales are expected to be $540,000.

If a firm plans to issue new stock, flotation costs (investment bankers' fees) should not be ignored. there are two approaches to use to account for flotation costs. the first approach is to add the sum of flotation costs for the debt, preferred, and common stock and add them to the initial investment cost. because the investment cost is increased, the project's expected return is reduced so it may not meet the firm's hurdle rate for acceptance of the project. the second approach involves adjusting the cost of common equity as follows: . the difference between the flotation-adjusted cost of equity and the cost of equity calculated without the flotation adjustment represents the flotation cost adjustment. quantitative problem: barton industries expects next year's annual dividend, d1, to be $1.90 and it expects dividends to grow at a constant rate g = 4.3%. the firm's current common stock price, p0, is $22.00. if it needs to issue new common stock, the firm will encounter a 6% flotation cost, f. assume that the cost of equity calculated without the flotation adjustment is 12% and the cost of old common equity is 11.5%. what is the flotation cost adjustment that must be added to its cost of retaine

Henry crouch's law office has traditionally ordered ink refills 55 units at a time. the firm estimates that carrying cost is 35% of the $11 unit cost and that annual demand is about 240 units per year. the assumptions of the basic eoq model are thought to apply. for what value of ordering cost would its action be optimal? a) for what value of ordering cost would its action be optimal?