Pace Tech Engineering Inc manufactures an electronic toy. The company has a building with a floor area of 180,000 square feet for both the manufacturing and warehousing operations. The company produces all of the components that go into the toy. Variable costs are estimated to be $20 per unit, and fixed costs per year are $10,875. The selling price per unit is $39. Determine the number of units/year required to be sold to make a profit of $25,000.

On january 15, the end of the first biweekly pay period of the year, north company’s payroll register showed that its employees earned $32,000 of sales salaries. withholdings from the employees’ salaries include fica social security taxes at the rate of 6.2%, fica medicare taxes at the rate of 1.45%, $3,000 of federal income taxes, $772 of medical insurance deductions, and $260 of union dues. no employee earned > $7,000 in this first period. prepare the journal entry to record north company’s january 15 (employee) payroll expenses and liabilities.