Galavic Corporation manufactures snowmobiles in its Blue Mountain, Wisconsin plant

E4-8 Galavic Corporation manufactures snowmobiles in its Blue Mountain, Wisconsin plant. The following costs are budgeted for the first quarter's operations.

Machine setup, indirect materials $ 4,000
Inspections 16,000
Tests 4,000
Insurance, plant 110,000
Engineering design 140,000
Depreciation, machinery 520,000
Machine setup, indirect labor 20,000
Property taxes 29,000
Oil, heating 19,000
Electricity, plant lighting 21,000
Engineering prototypes 60,000
Depreciation, plant 210,000
Electricity, machinery 36,000
Custodial (machine maintenance) wages 19,000

Classify the above costs of Galavic Corporation into activity cost pools using the following: engineering, machinery, machine setup, quality control, factory utilities, maintenance. Next, identify a cost driver that may be used to assign each cost pool to each line of snowmobiles.

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Howit Inc. operates a retail operation that purchases and sells snowmobiles, amongst other outdoor products

P5-6B Howit Inc. operates a retail operation that purchases and sells snowmobiles, amongst other outdoor products. The company purchases all merchandise inventory on credit and uses a periodic inventory system. The accounts payable account is used for recording inventory purchases only; all other current liabilities are accrued in separate accounts. You are provided with the following selected information for the fiscal years 2005 through 2008, inclusive.

2005 2006 2007 2008
Income Statement Data
Sales $96,850 $ (e) $82,220
Cost of goods sold (a) 25,140 25,990
Gross profit 69,640 61,540 (i)
Operating expenses 63,500 (f) 52,060
Net income $ (b) $4,570 $ (j)

Balance Sheet Data
Merchandise inventory $13,000 $ (c) $14,700 $ (k)
Account payable 5,800 6,500 4,600 (l)

Additional Information
Purchases of merchandise
Inventory on account $25,890 $ (g) $24,050
Cash payments to supplies (d) (h) 24,650

Instructions
(a) Calculate the missing accounts.
(b) Sales declined over the 3-year fiscal period, 2006-2008. Does that mean that profitability necessarily also declined? Explain, computing the gross profit rate and the profit margin ratio for each fiscal year to help support your answer. (Round to one decimal place.)

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