Osborn Manufacturing uses a predetermined overhead rate of $19.10 per direct labor-hour. This predetermined rate was based on a cost formula that estimates $246,390 of total manufacturing overhead for an estimated activity level of 12,900 direct labor-hours. The company actually incurred $245,000 of manufacturing overhead and 12,400 direct labor-hours during the period.
Required:
1. Determine the amount of underapplied or overapplied manufacturing overhead for the period.
2. Assume that the company's underapplied or overapplied overhead is closed to Cost of Goods Sold. Would the journal entry to dispose of the underapplied or overapplied overhead increase or decrease the company’s gross margin? By how much?

Answer and Explanation:

The computation is shown below:

a. The underapplied or overapplied overhead is

But before that the applied overhead is

Applied overhead = 12400 × 19.1

= $236,840  

Now Underapplied overhead is

= $245,000 - $236,840

= $8,160

2 The gross margin of the company would be decreased by $8,160    

JPM Overnight Delivery is one of the premier providers of shipping and information services worldwide, competing against firms like FedEx and UPS. As it prepares its marketing plans for the years ahead, it will conduct a very thorough SWOT analysis. Your job is to look at eight potential elements of JPM's SWOT analysis and determine which are strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Your ability to properly categorize these elements in your own career will allow you to maximize your firm's strengths and opportunities while also minimizing weaknesses and threats.

The evaluation of a firm's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats is called a SWOT analysis. A SWOT analysis can be a valuable tool in the development of a marketing plan, but too often the SWOT analysis is not well thought out and proves to be an ineffective waste of time. Perhaps the most common mistake when conducting a SWOT analysis is the failure to separate internal issues from external issues. The strengths and the weaknesses aspects of the SWOT analysis focus on internal capabilities. The opportunities and threats aspects focus on the external environment.

Match each item with the appropriate element of the SWOT analysis.

a. Post office closings
b. JPM has information technology infrastructure
c. Increasing demand for international packages
d. JPM has an excellent workforce and human resource department
e. Potential global economic recession
f. JPM has increasing labor costs
g. JPM has less fuel efficient planes
h. Increasing fuel costs due to turmoil in the Middle East

1. Weaknesses
2. Threats
3. Opportunities
4. Strengths

Record adjusting journal entries for each of the following for year ended December 31. Assume no other adjusting entries are made during the year.

Accounts Receivable. At year-end, the L. Cole Company has completed services of $20,500 for a client, but the client has not yet been billed for those services.
Interest Receivable. At year-end, the company has earned, but not yet recorded, $450 of interest earned from its investments in government bonds.
Accounts Receivable. A painting company bills customers when jobs are complete. The work for one job is now complete. The customer has not yet been billed for the $1,420 of work.

Burglars broke into an electronics store and left with 30 global navigation systems with a total retail value of $6,750 and 3 paper shredders with a total retail value of $255. What is the average retail value of each navigation system

The following condensed balance sheet is for the partnership of Hardwick, Saunders, and Ferris, who share profits and losses in the ratio of 4:3:3, respectively:
Cash $90,000 Accounts payable $210,000
Other assets 820,000 Ferris, loan 40,000
Hardwick, loan 30,000 Hardwick, capital 300,000
Saunders, capital 200,000
Ferris, capital 190,000
Total assets $940,000Total liabilities and capital $940,000
The partners decide to liquidate the partnership. Forty percent of the other assets are sold for $200,000.
Prepare a proposed schedule of liquidation at this point in time.

Louis has stable preferences (the same every year) and consumes two goods, wine and cheese. In 1994, the price of wine was $4/glass and the price of cheese was $2/ounce. Louis’s income was $60 and he bought 12 glasses of wine and 6 ounces of cheese. In 1995, wine costs $2/glass and cheese costs $4/ounce. Louis’s income is still $60.

Required:
Draw both years’ budget lines. Where do they cross?

Should all managers must always aim for the top position?why or why not

A company pays each of its two office employees each Friday at the rate of $240 per day for a five-day week that begins on Monday. If the monthly accounting period ends on Tuesday and the employees worked on both Monday and Tuesday, the month-end adjusting entry to record the salaries earned but unpaid is:_________.a. Debit Unpaid Salaries $1,440 and credit Salaries Payable $1,440.b. Debit Salaries Expense $960 and credit Salaries Payable $960.c. Debit Salaries Expense $1,440 and credit Salaries Payable $1,440.d. Debit Salaries Payable $960 and credit Salaries Expense $960.e. Debit Salaries Expense $960 and credit Cash $960.

A company is developing its weekly production plan. The company produces two products, A and B, which are processed in two departments. Setting up each batch of A requires $60 of labor while setting up a batch of B costs $80. Each unit of A generates a profit of $17 while a unit of B earns a profit of $21. The company can sell all the units it produces. The data for the problem are summarized below.
Hours required by
Operation A B Hours
Cutting 3 4 48
Welding 2 1 36
The decision variables are defined as:
xi = the amount of product i produced
yi = 1 if xi > 0 and 0 if xi = 0
A spreadsheet implementation of the problem is shown below.
Q1. What is the objective function for this problem?
a. Maximize: 17x1 + 21x2 - 60y1 - 80y2
b. Minimize: 60y1 + 80y2
c. Minimize: 17x1 + 21x2 - 60y1 - 80y2
d. d. Maximize: 17x1 + 21x2
Q2. What is the appropriate formula to use in cell E8 of the Excel implementation of the ILP model for this problem?
a. =SUMPRODUCT(B8:C8,B14:C14) - SUMPRODUCT(B5:C5,B7:C7)
b. =SUMPRODUCT(B5:C5,B7:C7) - SUMPRODUCT(B8:C8,B14:C14)
c. =SUMPRODUCT(B5:C5,B7:C7) - SUMPRODUCT(B8:C8,B15:C15)
d. =SUMPRODUCT(B5:C5,B7:C7) - B8:C8
Q3. Which of the following algebraic constraints creates the link between setting up to produce A's and making some A's for this problem?
a. x1 - 18 y1 > 0
b. x1 - y1 = 0
c. = if(x1 > 0, y1 = 1, y1 = 0)
d. x1 < 16y1

Wildhorse Co., a ski tuning and repair shop, opened on November 1, 2016. The company carefully kept track of all its cash receipts and cash payments. The following information is available at the end of the ski season, April 30, 2017.
Cash Receipts Cash Payments
Issuance of common shares $19,900
Payment to purchase repair shop equipment $9,430
Payments to landlord 1,225
Newspaper advertising payment 365
Utility bill payments 885
Part-time helper's wage payments 2,950
Income tax payment 10,000
Cash receipts from ski and snowboard repair services 30,400
Subtotals 50,300 24,855
Cash balance 25,445
Totals $50,300 $50,300
The repair shop equipment was purchased on November 1 and has an estimated useful life of 5 years. Lease payments to the landlord are made at the beginning of each month. The payments to the landlord included a security deposit of $175. The part-time helper is owed $495 at April 30, 2017, for unpaid wages. At April 30, 2017, customers owe Wildhorse Co. $455 for services they have received but have not yet paid for.

Assume that two countries (Home and Foreign) each produce two goods (corn and wheat) under constant cost production. Home produces 1/2 ton of corn or 1 ton of wheat with a day of labor. Foreign produces 1 ton of corn and 1/2 ton of wheat. Suppose that, after trade occurs, the international price actually becomes 1.5 tons of wheat per ton of corn.

Required:
a. What is Home's price of corn in autarky?
b. How large is Home's labor force?

Identify Project Needs The first step in any media-driven project is to determine whether the project is relevant to the purpose, audience, and audience needs. This step is important as the answers to the project questions will determine how you plan, structure, and produce a video-based project.Purpose:Upon completing this project, you will be able to understand how to decide what is needed for a project.Steps for completion:1.Which are four questions that need to be answered before beginning a project

Select all the correct answers.
Which three statements are true as they relate to supply and demand?
As supply rises, prices generally decrease.
As demand decreases, costs generally increase.
As supply decreases, prices increase.
The average rate of change describes how much a quantity changes as price increases.
As demand rises, the price of the product decreases.
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Worley Company buys surgical supplies from a variety of manufacturers and then resells and delivers these supplies to hundreds of hospitals. Worley sets its prices for all hospitals by marking up its cost of goods sold to those hospitals by 6%. For example, if a hospital buys supplies from Worley that had cost Worley $100 to buy from manufacturers, Worley would charge the hospital $106 to purchase these supplies.
For years, Worley believed that the 6% markup covered its selling and administrative expenses and provided a reasonable profit. However, in the face of declinin profits Worley decided to implement an activity-based costing system to help improve its understanding of customer profitability. The company broke its selling and administrative expenses into five activities as shown below:
Activity Cost Pool (Activity Measure) Total Cost Total Activity
Customer deliveries (Number of deliveries) $ 352,000 4,000 deliveries
Manual order processing (Number of manual orders) 539,000 7,000 orders
Electronic order processing (Number of electronic orders) 308,000 14,000 orders
Line item picking (Number of line items picked) 858,000 440,000 line items
Other organization-sustaining costs (None) 670,000
Total selling and administrative expenses $ 2,727,000
Worley gathered the data below for two of the many hospitals that it serves—University and Memorial (both hospitals purchased a total quantity of medical supplies that had cost Worley $36,000 to buy from its manufacturers):
Activity
Activity Measure University Memorial
Number of deliveries 14 21
Number of manual orders 0 43
Number of electronic orders 14 0
Number of line items picked 160 260
Required:
1. Compute the total revenue that Worley would receive from University and Memorial.
Total Revenue
University
Memorial
2. Compute the activity rate for each activity cost pool. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)
Activity Cost Pool
Activity Rate
Customer deliveries
Per delivery
Manual order processing
Per manual orde
Electronic order processing
Per electronic order
Line item picking
Per line item picked

You are a contracting officer responsible for source selection for a negotiated competitive services acquisition. The estimated value of the acquisition is $1,650,000. What would be true about regarding the evaluation of the past performance?

A limit buy order is an order to buy if the stock price goes ___ a specified level; a stop buy is an order to buy if the stock price goes ___ a specified level; a limit sell is an order to sell if the stock price goes ___ a specified level; a stop loss is an order to sell if the stock price goes ___ a specified level.

Rossdale, Inc., had additions to retained earnings for the year just ended of $641,000. The firm paid out $50,000 in cash dividends, and it has ending total equity of $7.36 million.
1. If the company currently has 730,000 shares of common stock outstanding, what are:
a. Earnings per share?
b. Dividends per share?
c. Book value per share? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answers to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)
2. lf he stock currently sells or $30.60 per share, what is:
a. the market-to-book ratio?
b. the price earnings ratio?
3. If total sales were $10.66 million, what is the price-sales ratio?

You're prepared to make monthly payments of $310, beginning at the end of this month, into an account that pays 4 percent interest compounded monthly. How many payments will you have made when your account balance reaches $20,175

Poorer countries have historically been responsible for the bulk of world carbon emissions because of poor technology and environmental regulations. Air and water quality in developed countries is generally much better today than it was several decades ago. Tackling climate change issues is likely to only modestly dent long-term economic growth. Carbon emissions are negatively correlated with economic growth.
a. True
b. False

Consider the following budgeted data for the client case of Carla's accounting firm. The client wants a fixed-price quotation.

Direct professional labour $20,700
Direct support labour 10,200
Fringe benefits for direct labour 13,500
Photocopying 1,800
Telephone calls 2,000
Computer lines 5,700

Overhead is allocated at the rate of 100% of direct labour cost.

Required:
Prepare a schedule of the budgeted total costs for the client.

Kahuna Industries has two manufacturing departments--Fabrication and Finishing. The company used the following data at the beginning of the year to calculate pre-determined overhead rates:
Fabrication Finishing Total
Estimated total machine-hours (MHs) 4,000 1,000 5,000
Estimated total fixed manufacturing overhead cost $30,000 $3,400 $33,400
Estimated variable manufacturing overhead cost
per machine-hour $2.00 $4.00
During the most recent month, the company started and completed two jobs--Job 14-X and Job 15-Z. There were no beginning inventories. Data concerning those two jobs follow:
Job 14-X Job 15-Z
Direct materials $14,700 $8,400
Direct labor cost $21,600 $8,400
Fabrication machine-hours 2,700 1,300
Finishing machine-hours 400 600
Assume that the company uses a plantwide pre-determined manufacturing overhead rate based on machine-hours. The total manufacturing cost assigned to Job 15-Z is closest to:______.

The 2008 balance sheet of Maria's Tennis Shop, Inc., showed $2.9 million in long-term debt, $770,000 in the common stock account, and $6 million in the additional paid-in surplus account. The 2009 balance sheet showed $3.5 million, $985,000, and $8.25 million in the same three accounts, respectively. The 2009 income statement showed an interest expense of $230,000. The company paid out $550,000 in cash dividends during 2009. If the firm's net capital spending for 2009 was $780,000, and the firm reduced its net working capital investment by $165,000, the firm's 2009 operating cash flow, or OCF is:_________.
a. $-2,770,000
b. $-1,670,000
c. $-2,285,000
d. $-4,000,000
e. $2,615,000

Which of the following would indicate an improvement in a company's financial position, holding other things constant? a. The inventory and total assets turnover ratios both decline. b. The debt ratio increases. c. The current and quick ratios both increase. d. The profit margin declines. e. The EBITDA coverage ratio declines.

A fiscal policy *

1) Is performed by the central bank

2) Effective in the short run

3) Depends on the interest rate in the market

4) None of the above​

Ralph has experienced financial difficulties as a result of his struggling business. He has been behind on his mortgage payments for the last six months. The mortgage holder, who is a friend of Ralph's, has offered to accept $80,000 in full payment of the $100,000 owed on the mortgage and payable over the next 10 years. The interest rate of the mortgage is 7%, and the market rate is now 8%.

Required:
What tax issues are raised by the creditor's offer?

If two tables do not already have relationships, how can they be related in the Design view?
O Establish primary keys for both of the tables.
O Right-click the table title and then click link tables.
O Drag and drop a field from one table to another.
O Make sure that only one table has a primary key.
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Question 2
What was the opening price of Dow Jones Industrial Average on Mar 28, 2019 in the format of XXXXX.XX?

The following partially completed T-accounts summarize transactions for Farwest Corporation during the year: Raw Materials Beg Bal 4,700 10,000 6,900 Work in Process Beg Bal 4,600 26,300 7,400 8,000 6,800 Finished Goods Beg Bal 1,900 22,900 26,300 Manufacturing Overhead 2,600 6,800 3,000 1,900 Wages & Salaries Payable 12,300 Beg Bal 1,400 11,000 Cost of Goods Sold 22,900 The Cost of Goods Manufactured was: Group of answer choices $22,900 $26,300 $6,400 $49,200

People of lower socioeconomic status are more likely to smoke tobacco, but the data collected does not indicate why. However, with a naturalist/constructivist approach, the exposures that people are subjected to (or choose) are better understood in the context of their personal circumstances and the significance that people attribute to things in their environment." Which type of study you will undertake to answer this research question?A. QualitativeB. Quantitative

Identify whether each of the following examples belongs in M1 or M2. If an example belongs in both, be sure to check both boxes.

a. Crystal has $8,000 in a two-year certificate of deposit (CD).
b. Tim has a roll of quarters that he just withdrew from the bank to do laundry.
c. Brian has $25,000 in a money market account.

Presented below are the ending balances of accounts for the Kansas Instruments Corporation at December 31, 2021.

Account Title Debits Credits
Cash $29, 000
Accounts receivable 148, 000
Raw materials 33, 000
Notes receivable 109, 000
Interest receivable 12, 000
Interest payable $14,000
Investment in debt securities 41, 000
Land 59, 000
Buildings 1,480, 000
Accumulated depreciation—buildings 629,000
Work in process 51,000
Finished goods 98, 000
Equipment 318,000
Accumulated depreciation—equipment 139000
Patent (net) 129,000
Prepaid rent (for the next two years 69 , 000
Deferred revenue 45,000
Accounts payable 189,000
Notes payable 490,000
Restricted cash (for payment of notes payable) 89,000
Allowance for uncollectible accounts 22,000
Sales revenue 980,000
Cost of goods sold 459,000
Rent expense 37,000

Additional Information: The notes receivable, along with any accrued interest, are due on November 22, 2022. The notes payable are due in 2025. Interest is payable annually. The investment in debt securities consist of treasury bills, all of which mature next year. Deferred revenue will be recognized as revenue equally over the next two years.

Required:
Determine the company's working capital (current assets minus current liabilities) at December 31, 2021.