On friday afternoon you tell nancy penley, a computer analyst, that she must work overtime the next day. she refuses, saying that saturday is her regular religious holiday and she can't work. do you have the legal right to order her to work on saturday?

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The direct labor budget of yuvwell corporation for the upcoming fiscal year contains the following details concerning budgeted direct labor-hours: 1st quarter 2nd quarter 3rd quarter 4th quarterbudgeted direct labor-hours 11,200 9,800 10,100 10,900the company uses direct labor-hours as its overhead allocation base. the variable portion of its predetermined manufacturing overhead rate is $6.00 per direct labor-hour and its total fixed manufacturing overhead is $80,000 per quarter. the only noncash item included in fixed manufacturing overhead is depreciation, which is $20,000 per quarter. required: 1. prepare the company’s manufacturing overhead budget for the upcoming fiscal year.2. compute the company’s predetermined overhead rate (including both variable and fixed manufacturing overhead) for the upcoming fiscal year.

Activity-based costing (abc) is not truly a cost collection mechanism as much as it is an inventory valuation method. the main purpose for implementing an activity-based cost system is to try to overcome some of the cost distortions that occur in traditional costing from product differences when there are variations in size and complexity. however, one of the disadvantages of utilizing abc is that the additional information gathering necessary to implement costing with that level of detail might be beyond the reach of some companies with resource or financial constraints. with this in mind, what kinds of industries or companies do you think would benefit most from using activity-based costing and why? in designing or modifying an accounting system to capture appropriate costs for abc, what considerations do you think would need to be made?