Data concerning three of the activity cost pools of Salcido LLC, a legal firm, have been provided below: Activity Cost Pool Total Cost Total Activity Researching legal issues $ 20,930 670 research hours Meeting with clients $ 1,184,706 7,313 meeting hours Preparing documents $ 92,290 5,770 documents The activity rate for the "meeting with clients" activity cost pool is closest to:

Wisconsin snowmobile corp. is considering a switch to level production. cost efficiencies would occur under level production, and after tax costs would decline by $36,000, but inventory would increase by $300,000. wisconsin snowmobile would have to finance the extra inventory at a cost of 13.5 percent.a. determine the extra cost or savings of switching over to level production. should the company go ahead and switch to level production? b how low would interest rates need to fall before level production would be feasible?