Imperial Jewelers manufactures and sells a gold bracelet for $405.00. The company's accounting system says that the unit product cost for this bracelet is $258.00 as shown below: Direct materials Direct labor Manufacturing overhead Unit product cost $ 144 83 31 $ 258 The members of a wedding party have approached Imperial Jewelers about buying 18 of these gold bracelets for the discounted price of $365.00 each. The members of the wedding party would like special filigree applied to the bracelets that would increase the direct materials cost per bracelet by $5. Imperial Jewelers would also have to buy a special tool for $463 to apply the filigree to the bracelets. The special tool would have no other use once the special order is completed. To analyze this special order opportunity, Imperial Jewelers has determined that most of its manufacturing overhead is fixed and unaffected by variations in how much jewelry is produced in any given period. However, $6.00 of the overhead is variable with respect to the number of bracelets produced. The company also believes that accepting this order would have no effect on its ability to produce and sell jewelry to other customers. Furthermore, the company could fulfill the wedding party's order using its existing manufacturing capacity. Required: 1. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of accepting the special order from the wedding party? 2. Should the company accept the special order? Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Required 1 Required 2 What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of accepting the special order from the wedding party? < Required 1 Required 2 >

Susan and Toby created a list of their monthly household expenses, as shown below. Mortgage: $1,960.00 Monthly Bills: $1,680.00 Entertainment and Food: $840.00 Savings: $1,120.00 Which hourly wage, working 40 hours a week for 4 weeks, meets these expenses? O A. $46.67 OB. $37.33 OC. $31.11 OD. $35.00

Consider a grocery bill containing the following costs for the items purchased: $3.07 $5.72 $7.29 $5.13 $8.73 $1.24 $7.42 a. Estimate the total cost by first rounding each to the nearest dollar. $ b. Estimate the total cost by first rounding each to the nearest fifty cents. $ c. What is the actual total cost? $ Show all work using the correct method on your handwritten work/answer sheet.

2. The state sales tax in Kansas is 6.5%. If the state tax on a purchased item is $2.38, what is selling price of the item?

Rose Garza's regular hourly wage rate is $12.00, and she receives a wage of 1½ times the regular hourly rate for work in excess of 40 hours. During a March weekly pay period, Rose worked 42 hours. Her gross earnings prior to the current week were $5,000. Rose is married and claims three withholding allowances. Her only voluntary deduction is for group hospitalization insurance at $20 per week.

A car rental company is offering a contract to pay by-the-mile. The plan charges a flat rate of $50.55 each week. Every mile traveled during the week costs $2.2 each. a) How much would the bill be if in one week 177 miles were driven? b) How many miles were driven if the bill for one week was $1,557.55?

Happy Valley Homecare Suppliers, Incorporated (HVHS), had $19.8 million in sales in 2015. Its cost of goods sold was $7.92 million, and its average inventory balance was $1.83 million. a. Calculate the average number of days inventory outstanding ratios for HVHS. b. The average number of inventory days in the industry is 73 days. By how much must HVHS reduce its investment in inventory to improve its inventory days to meet the industry? (Hint: Use a 365-day year.) ... a. Calculate the number of days inventory outstanding ratios for HVHS. The number of inventory days outstanding is days. (Round to two demical places.) b. The average number of inventory days in the industry is 73 days. By how much must HVHS reduce its investment in inventory to improve its inventory days to meet the industry? To match the industry average number of inventory days, HVHS would reduce its inventory by $ million. (Round to three decimal place.)

Marc Batchelor, a self-employed sales consultant, has estimated annual earnings of $305,000 this year. His social security tax rate is 12.4% up to the wage base, Medicare is 2.9%, and his federal income tax rate is 24%. How much estimated tax (in $) must Marc send to the IRS each quarter?