Many weight-loss programs advertise that they can help individuals lose a great deal of weight without any changes in the individual's lifestyle. Typically when the person who has lost the weight leaves the program, he or she regains all the lost weight. This yo-yoing is almost as bad for the body as the excess weight. These weight-loss programs are engaged in behavior. a. legal and irresponsible

b. legal and responsible

c. illegal but responsible

d. legal but irresponsible

The movement of an economy from one condition to another and back again

White company has two departments, cutting and finishing. the company uses a job-order costing system and computes a predetermined overhead rate in each department. the cutting department bases its rate on machine-hours, and the finishing department bases its rate on direct labor-hours. at the beginning of the year, the company made the following estimates: department cutting finishing direct labor-hours 6,000 30,000 machine-hours 48,000 5,000 total fixed manufacturing overhead cost $ 264,000 $ 366,000 variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour $ 2.00 " variable manufacturing overhead per direct labor-hour " $ 4.00 required: 1. compute the predetermined overhead rate for each department. 2. the job cost sheet for job 203, which was started and completed during the year, showed the following: department cutting finishing direct labor-hours 6 20 machine-hours 80 4 direct materials $ 500 $ 310 direct labor cost $ 108 $ 360 using the predetermined overhead rates that you computed in requirement (1), compute the total manufacturing cost assigned to job 203. 3. would you expect substantially different amounts of overhead cost to be assigned to some jobs if the company used a plantwide predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor-hours, rather than using departmental rates?

In the supply-and-demand schedule shown above, at the lowest price of $50, producers supply music players and consumers demand music players.