Coronado industries uses flexible budgets. at normal capacity of 22000 units, budgeted manufacturing overhead is $176000 variable and $36 fixed. if coronado had actual overhead costs of $553000 for 27000 units produced, what is the difference between actual and budgeted costs?

David burdick is the ceo of acme bubblegum, a successful public company. as one of the cofounders of the company, burdick has enjoyed speaking and writing about the success of acme bubblegum for several years. typically, he speaks at conferences or directly to the press, but recently, he has been blogging about his firm anonymously. specifically, he defended a recent advertising campaign that was unpopular among consumers and pointedly attacked one of acme bubblegum’s competitors. burdick deeply enjoys his anonymous blogging and believes that none of his readers actually know that he works for acme bubblegum.should burdick be allowed to praise his company’s performance anonymously online? should he be allowed to attack his competitors without disclosing his relationship with the company? how would you feel if the ceo of a company at which you shopped was secretly writing criticisms of his or her competition? how would you feel if you knew a writer for your favorite blog was actually closely involved in a company that the blog discussed? 1. define the ethical issue? 2. who are the primary stakeholders? 3. what are the possible alternatives? 4. how could you evaluate the ethical implications of the alternative actions (use appropriate decision rules)? 5. what action would you recommend and why?

Gif the federal reserve did not regulate fiscal policy, monitor banks and provide services for banks, what would most likely be the economic conditions to transact business in the u.s.? the economy would primarily be based on a barter system rather than a fiat system. there would be no discrimination in lending by local banks. the economy would be less efficient and transactions most likely more costly.

The food services division of cedar river amusement park inc. is studying the amount families who visit the amusement park spend per day on food and drink. a sample of 40 families who visited the park yesterday revealed they spent the following amounts: see worksheet 1 for data and answer the following questions: a. organize the data into a frequency distribution, using seven classes and 15 as the lower limit of the first class. what class interval did you select? b. what percent of families spent less than $45? c. what percent of families spent $55 or more? d. how many families spent from $65 to 74.99?