A manager at Strateline Manufacturing must choose between two shipping alternatives:

Two-day freight and five-day freight.

Using five-day freight would cost $170 less than using two-day freight. The primary consideration is holding cost, which is $10 per unit a year. 2,250 items are to be shipped.

(a) Which alternative would you recommend? Explain

The following selected amounts are reported on the year-end unadjusted trial balance report for a company that uses the percent of sales method to determine its bad debts expense. accounts receivable $ 435,000 debit allowance for doubtful accounts 1,250 debit net sales 2,100,000 credit all sales are made on credit. based on past experience, the company estimates 1.0% of credit sales to be uncollectible. what adjusting entry should the company make at the end of the current year to record its estimated bad debts expense

Oerstman, inc. uses a standard costing system and develops its overhead rates from the current annual budget.the budget is based on an expected annual output of 120,000 units requiring 480,000 direct labor hours.(practical capacity is 500,000 hours)annual budgeted overhead costs total $772,800, of which $556,800 is fixed overhead.a total of 119,300 units, using 478,000 direct labor hours, were produced during the year.actual variable overhead costs for the year were $260,400 and actual fixed overhead costs were $555,450.required: 1. compute the fixed overhead spending variance and indicate if favorable or unfavorable.2. compute the fixed overhead volume variance and indicate if favorable or unfavorable.

George kyparisis makes bowling balls in his miami plant. with recent increases in his​ costs, he has a newfound interest in efficiency. george is interested in determining the productivity of his organization. he would like to know if his organization is maintaining the manufacturing average of a​ 3% increase in productivity. he has the following data representing a month from last year and an equivalent month this​ year: last year now cost per input unit units produced 1 comma 2001,200 1 comma 2001,200 labor​ (hours) 300300 275275 ​$1212 per hour resin​ (pounds) 5050 4545 ​$55 per pound capital invested​ ($) 10 comma 00010,000 11 comma 00011,000 22​% per month energy​ (btu) 2 comma 9002,900 2 comma 7502,750 ​$0.600.60 per btu the percent change in productivity for one month last year versus one month this year on a multifactor basis with dollars as the common denominator​ = 3.153.15​% ​(enter your response as a percentage rounded to two decimal​ places).