Cato Springs Chemicals International, a batch chemical processing company, is considering acquiring new technology in order to enter a new specialty chemicals market. Three suppliers (A, B, and C) of specially designed centrifuges and associated equipment are under consideration. Depending on which supplier is chosen, slightly different markets will be pursued. The forecasts of net cash flows over a 10-year planning horizon for the three alternatives are given below. EOY CF(A) CF(B) CF(C) 0 -$10,620,600 -$12,554,700 -$8,362,300 1 -$2,568,800 -$2,948,700 -$1,836,400 2 $1,647,500 $2,033,100 $1,235,800 3 $2,119,100 $2,547,000 $1,651,400 4 $2,560,800 $2,998,300 $2,078,400 5 $2,894,300 $3,316,500 $2,248,300 6 $3,334,300 $3,667,300 $2,423,600 7 $3,587,700 $4,074,300 $2,621,700 8 $3,713,900 $4,324,500 $2,921,700 9 $5,192,900 $4,874,000 $3,796,500 10 $8,401,800 $9,404,200 $5,241,200

Problem 2-18 job-order costing for a service company [lo2-1, lo2-2, lo2-3]speedy auto repairs uses a job-order costing system. the company's direct materials consist of replacement parts installed in customer vehicles, and its direct labor consists of the mechanics' hourly wages. speedy's overhead costs include various items, such as the shop manager's salary, depreciation of equipment, utilities, insurance, and magazine subscriptions and refreshments for the waiting room. the company applies all of its overhead costs to jobs based on direct labor-hours. at the beginning of the year, it made the following estimates: direct labor-hours required to support estimated output 10,000fixed overhead cost $ 90,000variable overhead cost per direct labor-hour $ 1.00 required: 1. compute the predetermined overhead rate.2. during the year, mr. wilkes brought in his vehicle to replace his brakes, spark plugs, and tires. the following information was available with respect to his job: direct materials $ 600direct labor cost $ 180direct labor-hours used 2 compute mr. wilkes' total job cost. 3. if speedy establishes its selling prices using a markup percentage of 30% of its total job cost, then how much would it have charged mr. wilkes?

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Down under products, ltd., of australia has budgeted sales of its popular boomerang for the next four months as follows: unit salesapril 74,000may 85,000june 114,000july 92,000the company is now in the process of preparing a production budget for the second quarter. past experience has shown that end-of-month inventory levels must equal 10% of the following month’s unit sales. the inventory at the end of march was 7,400 units.required: prepare a production budget by month and in total, for the second quarter.