in an election debate, two candidates for governor are debating about whether to raise the general sales tax from 5 to 7 percent. candidate a argues that this would increase tax revenues, enabling the state to maintain essential services. candidate b argues that the tax would hurt retailers and consumers, slowing down the economy so much that it would decrease tax revenues too. what assumptions must the candidates be making in order to justify their position?

Moody corporation uses a job-order costing system with a plantwide predetermined overhead rate based on machine-hours. at the beginning of the year, the company made the following estimates: machine-hours required to support estimated production 100,000 fixed manufacturing overhead cost $ 650,000 variable manufacturing overhead cost per machine-hour $ 3.00 required: 1. compute the plantwide predetermined overhead rate. 2. during the year, job 400 was started and completed. the following information was available with respect to this job: direct materials $ 450 direct labor cost $ 210 machine-hours used 40