Luster, LLC uses departmental overhead rates. The company has two departments, fabrication and painting. Relevant data is below. Fabrication department: $12,000 fixed overhead, variable overhead $18 per labor hour Painting department: $28,000 fixed overhead, variable $9 per machine hour The company estimated the following hours: Fabrication department: 900 labor hours and 1,000 machine hours Painting department: 1,200 labor hours and 300 machine hours The overhead rate is applied based on machine hours in the fabrication department and labor hours in the painting department. What is the overhead rate for the fabrication department?

Acme published a story about paul and as a result paul sued acme for damage to his reputation, emotional distress, and punitive damages. paul won an award of $20,000 for damages, $5,500 for emotional distress, and $50,000 for punitive damages. what amount must paul include in his gross income

Kenney co. uses process costing to account for the production of canned energy drinks. direct materials are added at the beginning of the process and conversion costs are incurred uniformly throughout the process. equivalent units have been calculated to be 19,200 units for materials and 16,000 units for conversion costs. beginning inventory consisted of $11,200 in materials and $6,400 in conversion costs. april costs were $57,600 for materials and $64,000 for conversion costs. ending inventory still in process was 6,400 units (100% complete for materials, 50% for conversion). the total cost per unit using the weighted average method would be closest to:

(a) what was the opportunity cost of non-gm food for many buyers before 2008? (b) why did they prefer the alternative? (c) what was the opportunity cost in 2008? (d) why did it change?