Stephen muka owned u. s. robotics. he hired his brother chris to work in the company. his letter promised chris $1 million worth of robotics stock at the end of one year, "provided you work reasonably hard and smart at things in the next year." (we should all have such brothers.) chris arrived at robotics and worked the full year, but toward the end of the year, stephen died. his estate refused to give chris the stock, claiming their agreement was a personal satisfaction contract and only stephen could decide whether chris had earned the reward. comment.

Xie company identified the following activities, costs, and activity drivers for 2017. the company manufactures two types of go-karts: deluxe and basic. activity expected costs expected activity handling materials $ 625,000 100,000 parts inspecting product 900,000 1,500 batches processing purchase orders 105,000 700 orders paying suppliers 175,000 500 invoices insuring the factory 300,000 40,000 square feet designing packaging 75,000 2 models required: 1. compute a single plantwide overhead rate, assuming that the company assigns overhead based on 125,000 budgeted direct labor hours. 2. in january 2017, the deluxe model required 2,500 direct labor hours and the basic model required 6,000 direct labor hours. assign overhead costs to each model using the single plantwide overhead rate.