How much will net operating income increase (decrease) per month if the monthly advertising budget increases by $9,600, the monthly sales volume increases by 100 units, and the total monthly sales increase by $6,000

Xie company identified the following activities, costs, and activity drivers for 2017. the company manufactures two types of go-karts: deluxe and basic. activity expected costs expected activity handling materials $ 625,000 100,000 parts inspecting product 900,000 1,500 batches processing purchase orders 105,000 700 orders paying suppliers 175,000 500 invoices insuring the factory 300,000 40,000 square feet designing packaging 75,000 2 models required: 1. compute a single plantwide overhead rate, assuming that the company assigns overhead based on 125,000 budgeted direct labor hours. 2. in january 2017, the deluxe model required 2,500 direct labor hours and the basic model required 6,000 direct labor hours. assign overhead costs to each model using the single plantwide overhead rate.

Down under products, ltd., of australia has budgeted sales of its popular boomerang for the next four months as follows: unit salesapril 74,000may 85,000june 114,000july 92,000the company is now in the process of preparing a production budget for the second quarter. past experience has shown that end-of-month inventory levels must equal 10% of the following month’s unit sales. the inventory at the end of march was 7,400 units.required: prepare a production budget by month and in total, for the second quarter.

The stock of grommet corporation, a u.s. company, is publicly traded, with no single shareholder owning more than 5 percent of its outstanding stock. grommet owns 95 percent of the outstanding stock of staple inc., also a u.s. company. staple owns 100 percent of the outstanding stock of clip corporation, a canadian company. grommet and clip each own 50 percent of the outstanding stock of fastener inc., a u.s. company. grommet and staple each own 50 percent of the outstanding stock of binder corporation, a u.s. company. which of these corporations form an affiliated group eligible to file a consolidated tax return?