Katie is a shareholder in engineers one, a civil engineering company. this year, katie’s share of net business income from engineers one is $200,000. assume that katie’s allocation of wages paid by engineers one to its employees is $300,000 and her allocation of engineers one’s qualified property is $150,000 (unadjusted basis of equipment, all purchased within the past three years). assume katie has no other business income and no capital gains or qualified dividends. her taxable income before the deduction for qualified business income is $400,000

crow design, inc. is a web site design and consulting firm. the firm uses a job order costing system in which each client is a different job. crow design assigns direct labor, licensing costs, and travel costs directly to each job. it allocates indirect costs to jobs based on a predetermined overhead allocation rate, computed as a percentage of direct labor costs. direct labor hours (professional) 6,250 hours direct labor costs ($1,800,000 support staff salaries ,000 computer ,000 office ,000 office ,000 in november 2012, crow design served several clients. records for two clients appear here: delicious treats mesilla chocolates direct labor 700 hours 100 hours software licensing $ 4,000 $400 travel costs 8,000 1. compute crow design’s direct labor rate and its predetermined indirect cost allocation rate for 2012. 2. compute the total cost of each job. 3. if simone wants to earn profits equal to 50% of service revenue, how much (what fee) should she charge each of these two clients? 4. why does crow design assign costs to jobs?