Assume you can earn 9 % per year on your investments. a. If you invest $ 100 comma 000 for retirement at age 30, how much will you have 35 years later for retirement? b. If you wait until age 40 to invest the $ 100 comma 000, how much will you have 25 years later for retirement? c. Why is the difference so large?

Harwood company uses a job-order costing system that applies overhead cost to jobs on the basis of machine-hours. the company's predetermined overhead rate of $2.50 per machine-hour was based on a cost formula that estimates $240,000 of total manufacturing overhead for an estimated activity level of 96,000 machine-hours. required: 1. assume that during the year the company works only 91,000 machine-hours and incurs the following costs in the manufacturing overhead and work in process accounts: compute the amount of overhead cost that would be applied to work in process for the year and make the entry in your t-accounts. 2a. compute the amount of underapplied or overapplied overhead for the year and show the balance in your manufacturing overhead t-account. 2b. prepare a journal entry to close the company's underapplied or overapplied overhead to cost of goods sold.

Why do you think the compensation plans differ at the two firms? in particular, why do you think kaufmann’s pays commissions to salespeople, while parkleigh does not? why does parkleigh offer employees discounts on purchases, while kaufmann’s does not?

Compute the cost of not taking the following cash discounts. (use a 360-day year. do not round intermediate calculations. input your final answers as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.)