Fogelin Promotional Services Uses a Job Order System for Costing

question 48

Multiple Choice

Fogelin Promotional Services uses a job order system for costing and billing promotional services for dance and ballet performances. Fogelin has 4 public relations specialists, plus an office staff. At the beginning of 2014, Fogelin estimated the total cost of salaries and benefits for the public relations specialists at $676,800, and a total of 7,200 billable hours for the year. All remaining office and administrative costs were estimated at $403,200. The allocation base for office and administrative costs is billable hours. In June, Fogelin signed a contract for a Russian ballet performance. They estimated it would require 34 hours of specialist time. What is the total cost estimate for this contract?

• A)$1,904
• B)$5,100
• C)$3,196
• D)$4,906

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Definitions:

Null Hypothesis

A statement positing that there is no significant difference or relationship between specified populations, any observed difference being due to sampling or experimental error.

Probability

A measure of the likelihood that an event will occur, quantified between 0 and 1, where 0 indicates impossibility and 1 indicates certainty.

Null Hypothesis

A type of hypothesis used in statistics that suggests there is no significant difference or effect in a particular condition, serving as a default position until evidence suggests otherwise.

P < .05

A statistical threshold indicating that the probability of observing the obtained result, or more extreme, if the null hypothesis is true, is less than 5%.