Panamint Systems Corporation is estimating activity costs associated with producing disk drives, tapes drives, and wire drives. The indirect labor can be traced to four separate activity pools. The budgeted activity cost and activity base data by product are provided below.
Activity Cost Activity Base
Procurement $370,000 Number of purchase orders
Scheduling 250,000 Number of production orders
Materials handling 500,000 Number of moves
Product development 730,000 Number of engineering changes
Production 1,500,000 Machine hours

Number of Number of Number of Number of Machine Number of
Purchase Orders Production Orders Moves Engineering Changes Hours Units

Disk drives 4,000 300 1,400 10 2,000 2,000
Tape drives 4,000 150 800 10 8,000 4,000
Wire drives 12,000 800 4,000 25 10,000 2,500

1. Determine the activity rate for procurement per purchase order.
a $43.53
b $18.50
c $15.42
d $37.00

2. Determine the activity rate per production order for scheduling.
a $200.00
b $20.00
c $29.41
d $10.42

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Swathmore clothing corporation grants its customers 30 days' credit. the company uses the allowance method for its uncollectible accounts receivable. during the year, a monthly bad debt accrual is made by multiplying 3% times the amount of credit sales for the month. at the fiscal year-end of december 31, an aging of accounts receivable schedule is prepared and the allowance for uncollectible accounts is adjusted accordingly. at the end of 2012, accounts receivable were dollar 586.000 and the allowance account had a credit balance of dollar 50,000. accounts receivable activity for 2013 was as follows: the company's controller prepared the following aging summary of year-end accounts receivable: prepare a summary journal entry to record the monthly bad debt accrual and the write-offs during the year. (if no entry is required for a particular event, select "no journal entry required" in the first account field.) prepare the necessary year-end adjusting entry for bad debt expense. (if no entry is required for an event, select "no journal entry required" in the first account field.) what is total bad debt expense for 2013? calculate the amount of accounts receivable that would appear in the 2013 balance sheet?