Benton company is preparing its annual profit plan. as part of its analysis of the cost of its purchasing activity, management estimates that the $48,000 for purchasing support should be assigned to the individual vendors from the information given as follows: vendor a vendor b units purchased 100,000 200,000 purchase orders (annual) 6 24 number of shipments received 12 52 what is the amount of the purchasing costs that should be allocated to vendor b, assuming benton uses number of shipments received to compute activity-based costs?

On january 8, the end of the first weekly pay period of the year, regis company's payroll register showed that its employees earned $22,760 of office salaries and $70,840 of sales salaries. withholdings from the employees' salaries include fica social security taxes at the rate of 6.20%, fica medicare taxes at the rate of 1.45%, $13,260 of federal income taxes, $1,450 of medical insurance deductions, and $860 of union dues. no employee earned more than $7,000 in this first pay period. required: 1.1 calculate below the amounts for each of these four taxes of regis company. regis’s merit rating reduces its state unemployment tax rate to 3% of the first $7,000 paid to each employee. the federal unemployment tax rate is 0.60