Contribution Income Statement and Operating Leverage Willamette Valley Fruit Company started as a small cannery-style operation in 1999. The company now processes, on average, 20 million pounds of berries each year. Flash-frozen berries are sold in 30 pound packs to retailers. Assume 650,000 packs were sold for $75 each last year. Variable costs were $42 per pack and fixed costs totaled $14,250,000. (a) Prepare a contribution income statement for the year ended December 31. HINT: Use a negative sign with both "costs" answers.

The green fiddle has declared a $5 per share dividend. suppose capital gains are not taxed, but dividends are taxed at 15 percent. new irs regulations require that taxes be withheld at the time the dividend is paid. green fiddle stock sells for $71.50 per share, and the stock is about to go ex-dividend. what will the ex-dividend price be?

What is a market? a. a system that allows people or companies to buy and sell products and services b. the number of companies willing to manufacture a specific product c. the ability to buy production materials in large quantities and save on costs d. a product's ability to satisfy a consumer

Wilmington company has two manufacturing departments--assembly and fabrication. it considers all of its manufacturing overhead costs to be fixed costs. the first set of data that is shown below is based on estimates from the beginning of the year. the second set of data relates to one particular job completed during the year--job bravo. estimated data assembly fabrication total manufacturing overhead costs $ 6,720,000 $ 7,280,000 $ 14,000,000 direct labor-hours 140,000 84,000 224,000 machine-hours 56,000 280,000 336,000 job bravo assembly fabrication total direct labor-hours 29 21 50 machine-hours 21 24 45 required: 1. if wilmington used a plantwide predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor-hours, how much manufacturing overhead would be applied to job bravo