Identify the purpose of a transaction processing system used in organizations. to enable customers to buy goods and services from a firm's Web site to support the activities within a specific functional area of the firm to support the coordination of suppliers, product or service production, and distribution to handle day-to-day business event data at the operational level of the organization to produce detailed information to help manage a firm or part of a firm

On january 1, jackson, inc.'s work-process inventory account showed a balance of $ 66,500. during the year, materials requisitioned for use in production amounted to $ 70,500, of which $ 67,700 represented direct materials. factory wages for the period were $ 210,000 of which $ 187,000 were for direct labor. manufacturing overhead is allocated on the basis of 60% of direct labor cost. actual overhead was $ 116,050. jobs costing $ 353,060 were completed during the year. the december 31 balance in work-process inventory is

The production manager of rordan corporation has submitted the following quarterly production forecast for the upcoming fiscal year: 1st quarter 2nd quarter 3rd quarter 4th quarter units to be produced 10,800 8,500 7,100 11,200 each unit requires 0.25 direct labor-hours, and direct laborers are paid $20.00 per hour. required: 1. prepare the company’s direct labor budget for the upcoming fiscal year. assume that the direct labor workforce is adjusted each quarter to match the number of hours required to produce the forecasted number of units produced. 2. prepare the company’s direct labor budget for the upcoming fiscal year, assuming that the direct labor workforce is not adjusted each quarter. instead, assume that the company’s direct labor workforce consists of permanent employees who are guaranteed to be paid for at least 2,500 hours of work each quarter. if the number of required direct labor-hours is less than this number, the workers are paid for 2,500 hours anyway. any hours worked in excess of 2,500 hours in a quarter are paid at the rate of 1.5 times the normal hourly rate for direct labor.

Zapper has beginning equity of $257,000, net income of $51,000, dividends of $40,000 and investments by stockholders of $6,000. its ending equity is