Youngstown Construction plans to discontinue its roofing segment. Last year, this segment generated a contribution margin of $65,000 and incurred $70,000 in fixed costs. Discontinuing the segment will allow the company to avoid half of the fixed costs. What effect is expected to occur to the company's overall profit? A. a decrease of $5,000 B. a decrease of $30,000 C. a decrease of $5,000 D. an increase of $30,000

Tiana daniels enterprise’s trial balance as at december 31, 2016 did not balance. on february 15, 2017 the following errors were detected: errorsi. water rates had been undercast by $2, 000.  ii. a cheque paid to yvonne walch of $2, 680 had been posted to the credit side of her account.  iii. discount received total of $1, 260 had been posted to the debit side of the discount allowed account as $1, 620.  iv. rent paid in the amount of $24, 000 had been posted to the credit of the rent received account.  v. wayne returned goods valuing $1, 680 to daniels enterprise but had been completely omitted from the books.    required: 1. prepare the journal entries to correct the errors.  (narrations required)                    14.5 marks  2.    prepare the suspense account showing clearly the original trial balance error.          8 marks

Nichols inc. manufactures remote controls. currently the company uses a plantminuswide rate for allocating manufacturing overhead. the plant manager is considering switchingminusover to abc costing system and has asked the accounting department to identify the primary production activities and their cost drivers which are as follows: activities cost driver allocation rate material handling number of parts $5 per part assembly labor hours $20 per hour inspection time at inspection station $10 per minute the current traditional cost method allocates overhead based on direct manufacturing labor hours using a rate of $20 per labor hour. what are the indirect manufacturing costs per remote control assuming an method is used and a batch of 10 remote controls are produced? the batch requires 100 parts, 5 direct manufacturing labor hours, and 3 minutes of inspection time.

During the holiday season, maria's department store works with a contracted employment agency to bring extra workers on board to handle overflow business, and extra duties such as wrapping presents. maria's is using during these rush times.