Kahuna Industries has two manufacturing departments--Fabrication and Finishing. The company used the following data at the beginning of the year to calculate pre-determined overhead rates: Fabrication Finishing Total
Estimated total machine-hours (MHs) 4,000 1,000 5,000
Estimated total fixed manufacturing overhead cost $30,000 $3,400 $33,400
Estimated variable manufacturing overhead cost
per machine-hour $2.00 $4.00
During the most recent month, the company started and completed two jobs--Job 14-X and Job 15-Z. There were no beginning inventories. Data concerning those two jobs follow:
Job 14-X Job 15-Z
Direct materials $14,700 $8,400
Direct labor cost $21,600 $8,400
Fabrication machine-hours 2,700 1,300
Finishing machine-hours 400 600
Assume that the company uses a plantwide pre-determined manufacturing overhead rate based on machine-hours. The total manufacturing cost assigned to Job 15-Z is closest to:.

Instructions: use the following information to construct the 2000 balance sheet and income statement for carolina business machines. round all numbers to the nearest whole dollar. all numbers are in thousands of dollars. be sure to read the whole problem before you jump in and get started. at the end of 1999 the firm had $43,000 in gross fixed assets. in 2000 they purchased an additional $14,000 of fixed asset equipment. accumulated depreciation at the end of 1999 was $21,000. the depreciation expense in 2000 is $4,620. at the end of 2000 the firm had $3,000 in cash and $3,000 in accounts payable. in 2000 the firm extended a total of $9,000 in credit to a number of their customers in the form of accounts receivable. the firm generated $60,000 in sales revenue in 2000. their cost of goods sold was 60 percent of sales. they also incurred salaries and wages expense of $10,000. to date the firm has $1,000 in accrued salaries and wages. they borrowed $10,000 from their local bank to finance the $15,000 in inventory they now have on hand. the firm also has $7,120 invested in marketable securities. the firm currently has $20,000 in long-term debt outstanding and paid $2,000 in interest on their outstanding debt. over the firm's life, shareholders have put up $30,000. eighty percent of the shareholder's funds are in the form of retained earnings. the par value per share of carolina business machines stock is

The cost of labor is significantly lower in many countries than in the united states. if you move manufacturing to a facility to a country labeled as part of the axis of evil and a threat to world peace you will increase the net income of your client by $10 million per the facility is located in a country which limits personal freedom and engages in state sponsored terrorism. imagine you are a marketing consultant. (a) what would you tell the executives to do? (b) what are the alternatives? what are your recommendations? why do you recommend this course of action?

Which curve shows increasing opportunity cost as you give up more of one option? demand curve bow-shaped curve yield curve indifference curve