The unemployment rate is the Multiple Choice
ratio of unemployed to employed workers.
number of employed workers minus the number of workers who are not in the labor force.
percentage of the labor force that is unemployed.

Martinez manufacturing applies overhead based on direct labor hours. the company estimates that their overhead for the year will be $180,000, and that they will use 72,000 direct labor hours. during the year, martinez manufacturing actually used 75,000 direct labor hours and actual overhead costs were $190,000. at the end of the year, manufacturing overhead was: overapplied by $2,500. overapplied by $10,000. underapplied by $2,500. underapplied by $10,000.

wilson's has 10,000 shares of common stock outstanding at a market price of $35 a share. the firm also has a bond issue outstanding with a total face value of $250,000 which is selling for 102 percent of face value. the cost of equity is 11 percent while the preminustax cost of debt is 8 percent. the firm has a beta of 1.1 and a tax rate of 34 percent. what is wilson's weighted average cost of capital?

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.