Assume that the Oregon Ice Cream Company is considering the costs of two of their product lines—ice cream sandwiches and dessert bars. The company identified the following partial list of activities, costs, and activity drivers expected for the next year. Activity - Expected Costs - Cost DriverExtrusion costs - $637,500 - Number batches madePackaging costs - $44,000 - Number of units made Ice Cream Sandwiches - Dessert Bars Production volume: 350,000 units - 200,000 unitsBatches made: 400 batches - 350 batches How much overhead cost will be assigned to the ice cream sandwich product line using activity-based costing (ABC)?

Rate of return douglas keel, a financial analyst for orange industries, wishes to estimate the rate of return for two similar-risk investments, x and y. douglas's research indicates that the immediate past returns will serve as reasonable estimates of future returns. a year earlier, investment x had a market value of $27 comma 000; and investment y had a market value of $46 comma 000. during the year, investment x generated cash flow of $2 comma 025 and investment y generated cash flow of $ 6 comma 770. the current market values of investments x and y are $28 comma 582 and $46 comma 000, respectively. a. calculate the expected rate of return on investments x and y using the most recent year's data. b. assuming that the two investments are equally risky, which one should douglas recommend? why?