Benitez Company makes wicker and wooden slat picnic baskets. It requires approximately one hour of labor to make one basket of either type. Wicker baskets are produced in batches of 100 units and require 0.4 machine hours per basket. Wooden slat baskets are produced in batches of 50 units and require 0.75 machine hours per basket. Setup is required for each batch. During the most recent accounting period, the company made 9,000 wicker baskets and 3,000 wooden slat baskets. Setup costs amounted to $31,500 for the baskets produced during the period. If activity-based costing is used to allocate overhead costs to the two products, the amount of setup cost assigned to the wicker baskets will be:

Assume a firm's production process requires an average of 80 days to go from raw materials to finished products and another 40 days before the finished goods are sold. if the accounts receivable cycle is 70 days and the accounts payable cycle is 80 days, what would the operating cycle be?

Which of the following statements is correct? a. two firms with identical sales and operating costs but with different amounts of debt and tax rates will have different operating incomes by definition. b. free cash flow (fcf) is, essentially, the cash flow that is available for interest and dividends after the company has made the investments in current and fixed assets that are necessary to sustain ongoing operations. c. retained earnings as reported on the balance sheet represent cash and, therefore, are available to distribute to stockholders as dividends or any other required cash payments to creditors and suppliers. d. if a firm is reporting its income in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, then its net income as reported on the income statement should be equal to its free cash flow. e. after-tax operating income is calculated as ebit(1 - t) + depreciation.

Ben collins plans to buy a house for $166,000. if the real estate in his area is expected to increase in value by 2 percent each year, what will its approximate value be five years from now?