Baird Manufacturing Company makes tents that it sells directly to camping enthusiasts through a mail-order marketing program. The company pays a quality control expert $110,500 per year to inspect completed tents before they are shipped to customers. Assume that the company completed 1,570 tents in January and 1,180 tents in February. For the entire year, the company expects to produce 17,000 tents.Required
If the cost objective is to determine the cost per tent, is the expert’s salary a direct or...