XYZ Company provides the following activity-based costing information: Activities Total Costs Activity-cost drivers Account inquiry $320,000 16,000 hours Account billing $160,000 3,200,000 lines Account verification costs $138,600 60,000 accounts Correspondence letters $19,200 4,000 letters Total costs $637,800 The above activities are used by Departments A and B as follows: Department A Department B Account inquiry hours 2,700 hours 1,800 hours Account billing lines 820,000 lines 630,000 lines Account verification accounts 23,000 accounts 24,000 accounts Correspondence letters 1,500 letters 2,000 letters How much of the account verification costs will be assigned to Department B

An outside manufacturer has offered to produce 60,000 daks and ship them directly to andretti's customers. if andretti company accepts this offer, the facilities that it uses to produce daks would be idle; however, fixed manufacturing overhead costs would be reduced by 75%. because the outside manufacturer would pay for all shipping costs, the variable selling expenses would be only two-thirds of their present amount. what is andretti's avoidable cost per unit that it should compare to the price quoted by the outside manufacturer?

Ummit record company is negotiating with two banks for a $157,000 loan. fidelity bank requires a compensating balance of 24 percent, discounts the loan, and wants to be paid back in four quarterly payments. southwest bank requires a compensating balance of 12 percent, does not discount the loan, but wants to be paid back in 12 monthly installments. the stated rate for both banks is 9 percent. compensating balances will be subtracted from the $157,000 in determining the available funds in part a. a-1. calculate the effective interest rate for fidelity bank and southwest bank. (do not round intermediate calculations. input your answers as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.) a-2. which loan should summit accept? southwest bank fidelity bank b. recompute the effective cost of interest, assuming that summit ordinarily maintains $37,680 at each bank in deposits that will serve as compensating balances

Select all that apply. select the ways that labor unions can increase wages. collective bargaining reducing the labor supply increasing the demand for labor creating monopolies