• You are an administrative assistant to the human resources manager for a manufacturing firm. Your firm
has 300 employees. The human resources manager
asks you to research the firm's wage policy regarding
the 230 employees paid on an hourly basis.
How would you determine the firm's wage level
when compared to other firms in your geographic
area?
In what ways could you determine the firm's wage
structure within the firm?
How can you evaluate the individual wages paid to
each of the 230 workers paid on an hourly basis?
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Vortex company operates a retail store with two departments. information about those departments follows. department a department b sales $ 800,000 $ 450,000 cost of goods sold 497,000 291,000 direct expenses salaries 125,000 88,000 insurance 20,000 10,000 utilities 24,000 14,000 depreciation 21,000 12,000 maintenance 7,000 5,000 the company also incurred the following indirect costs. salaries $36,000 insurance 6,000 depreciation 15,000 office expenses 50,000 indirect costs are allocated as follows: salaries on the basis of sales; insurance and depreciation on the basis of square footage; and office expenses on the basis of number of employees. additional information about the departments follows. department square footage number of employees a 28,000 75 b 12,000 50 required: 1. determine the departmental contribution to overhead and the departmental net income for department a and department b.