Leno Manufacturing Company prepared the following factory overhead cost budget for the Press Department for October of the current year, during which it expected to require 20,000 hours of productive capacity in the department:
Variable overhead cost:
Indirect factory labor $180,000
Power and light 12,000
Indirect materials 64,000
Total variable overhead cost $256,000
Fixed overhead cost:
Supervisory salaries $ 80,000
Depreciation of plant and equipment 50,000
Insurance and property taxes 32,000
Total fixed overhead cost 162,000
Total factory overhead cost $418,000
Required:
1. Assuming that the estimated costs for November are the same as for October, prepare a flexible factory overhead cost budget for the Press Department for November for 18,000, 20,000, and 22,000 hours of production. Enter all amounts as positive numbers. Round your interim computations to the nearest cent, if required.

One investigating company tracked all credit card purchase during 2012 and measured two variables: (1) the type of credit card used (visa, mastercard, american express, or discover), and (2) the amount (in dollars) of each purchase. identify the level of each variable measured.

Afactory owner wants his workers to produce as many widgets as they can so he pays his workers based on how many widgets they produce. however, in order to make sure that the workers do not rush and produce a large number of poorly made widgets, he checks the widgets at random at various stages of their manufacture. if a defect is found in a widget, the pay of the entire section of the factory responsible for that defect is docked. how is this factory owner seeking to solve the agency conflict problem in this case?

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