During the past three decades, the level of federal payroll tax has , and the level of federal corporate taxes has .

Garfield corporation is considering building a new plant in canada. it predicts sales at the new plant to be 50,000 units at $5.00/unit. below is a listing of estimated expenses. category total annual expenses % of annual expense that are fixed materials $50,000 10% labor $90,000 20% overhead $40,000 30% marketing/admin $20,000 50% a canadian firm was contracted to sell the product and will receive a commission of 10% of the sales price. no u.s. home office expenses will be allocated to the new facility. the contribution margin ratio for garfield corporation is

Acompany has two products: standard and deluxe. the company expects to produce 36,375 standard units and 62,240 deluxe units. it uses activity-based costing and has prepared the following analysis showing budgeted cost and cost driver activity for each of its three activity cost pools.budgeted activity of cost driver activity cost pool budgeted cost standard deluxe activity 1 $ 93,000 2,500 5,250 activity 2 $ 92,000 4,500 5,500 activity 3 $ 87,000 3,000 2,800 what is the overhead cost per unit for the standard units? what is the overhead cost per unit for the deluxe units? (round activity rate and cost per unit answers to 2 decimal places.)activity expected costs expected activity driver activity rate1 93,000 2 92,000 3 87,000 standard activity activity driver activity rate allocated costs1 2 3

Activity-based costing (abc) is not truly a cost collection mechanism as much as it is an inventory valuation method. the main purpose for implementing an activity-based cost system is to try to overcome some of the cost distortions that occur in traditional costing from product differences when there are variations in size and complexity. however, one of the disadvantages of utilizing abc is that the additional information gathering necessary to implement costing with that level of detail might be beyond the reach of some companies with resource or financial constraints. with this in mind, what kinds of industries or companies do you think would benefit most from using activity-based costing and why? in designing or modifying an accounting system to capture appropriate costs for abc, what considerations do you think would need to be made?