A partially amortizing mortgage is made for $180,000 for a term of 30 years. The borrower and lender agree that a balance of $40,000 will remain and be repaid as a lump sum at that time. If the interest rate is 6.50%, what must the monthly payment be over the 30 year period? a. $1,101.56
b. $1,137.72
c. $5,285.36
d. $11,700.00

Wallis company manufactures only one product and uses a standard cost system. the company uses a predetermined plantwide overhead rate that relies on direct labor-hours as the allocation base. all of the company's manufacturing overhead costs are fixed—it does not incur any variable manufacturing overhead costs. the predetermined overhead rate is based on a cost formula that estimated $2,886,000 of fixed manufacturing overhead for an estimated allocation base of 288,600 direct labor-hours. wallis does not maintain any beginning or ending work in process inventory.

Bridge building company estimates that it will incur $1,200,000 in overhead costs for the year. additionally, the company estimates 50,000 direct labor hours will be spent building custom walking bridges for the year at a total direct labor cost of $600,000. what is the predetermined overhead rate for bridge building company if direct labor costs are to be used as an allocation base?

Which type of unemployment would increase if workers lost their jobs because their positions were replaced by an automated process? a) cyclical b) frictional c) international d) structural