Kearney, Inc., makes kitchen tools. Company management believes that a new model of coffee grinder would sell well at a price of $70.20. The company estimates unit materials costs to be $9.00 for the model, and overhead costs would average $30.70 per unit. The local wage rate for direct labor is $26.00 per hour. Kearney has a goal of earning an operating profit of 30.00 percent of manufacturing costs for each of its products.

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What direct labor-hour input (hours per unit) could Kearney allow and still achieve its profit goal? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

What are the general categories of capital budget scenarios? describe the overall decision-making context for each.

Salaries are $4,500 per week for five working days and are paid weekly at the end of the day fridays. the end of the month falls on a thursday. the accountant for dayton company made the appropriate accrual adjustment and posted it to the ledger. the balance of salaries payable, as shown on the adjusted trial balance, will be a (assume that there was no beginning balance in the salaries payable account.)

Caleb construction (cc) incurs supervisor salaries expense in the construction of homes. if cc manufactures 100 homes in a year, fixed supervisor salaries will be $400,000. with the current construction supervisors, cc's productive capacity is 150 homes in a year. however, if cc is contracts to build more than 150 homes per year, it will need to hire additional supervisors, which are hired as full-time rather than temporary employees. cc's productive capacity would then become 200 homes per year, and salaries expense would increase to $470,000. how would cc’s salaries expense be properly classified? fixed variable mixed stepped curvilinear