The Thomlin Company forecasts that total overhead for the current year will be $11,415,000 with 180,000 total machine hours. Year to date, the actual overhead is $7,948,000 and the actual machine hours are 88,000 hours. If the Thomlin Company uses a predetermined overhead rate based on machine hours for applying overhead, as of this point in time (year to date), the overhead is Round the factory overhead rate to the nearest dollar before multiplying by the number of hours. a. $1,000,000 over
b. $1,000,000 under
c. $500,000 over
d. $500,000

In mexico, many garment or sewing shops found they could entice many young people to work for them if they offered clean, air conditioned work areas with high-quality locker rooms to clean up in after the work day. typically, traditional garment shops had to offer to get workers to apply for the hard, repetitive, and somewhat dangerous work. a. benchmark competitive wages b.compensating differentials c. monopoly wages d. wages based on human capital development of each employee

Aproduct has a demand of 4000 units per year. ordering cost is $20, and holding cost is $4 per unit per year. the cost-minimizing solution for this product is to order: ? a. 200 units per order. b. all 4000 units at one time. c. every 20 days. d. 10 times per year. e. none of the above

Garrett is an executive vice president at samm hardware. he researches a proposal by a larger company, maximum hardware, to combine the two companies. by analyzing past performance, conducting focus groups, and interviewing maximum employees, garrett concludes that maximum has poor profit margins, sells shoddy merchandise, and treats customers poorly. what actions should garrett and samm hardware take? a. turn down the acquisition offer and prepare to resist a hostile takeover. b. attempt a friendly merger and use managerial hubris to improve results at maximum. c. welcome the acquisition and use knowledge transfer to impart sam hardware's management practices. d. do nothing; the two companies cannot combine without samm hardware's explicit consent.