Smith has applied overhead of $73,000 and actual overhead of $87,600 for the month of november. it applies overhead based on direct labor hours and those equaled 14,600 in november. overhead for the year was estimated to be $900,000. how many direct labor hours were estimated for the year?
a.
175,200
b.
180,000
c.
$5
d.
150,000

forbearance of student loan payments. under forbearance, your loan payments are postponed (or reduced) but interest continues to accrue during the period of forbearance. if you don't pay the interest during that period, the interest may be “capitalized,” which means it is added to your principal balance.

a manufacturer of printed circuit boards uses exponential smoothing with trend to forecast monthly demand of its product. at the end of december, the company wishes to forecast sales for january. the estimate of trend through november has been 200 additional boards sold per month. average sales have been around 1000 units per month. the demand for december was 1100 units. the company uses α = 0.20 and β = 0.10. make a forecast including trend for the month of january.