The following information pertains to Havana Corporation's defined benefit pension plan: ($ in 000s) 2018 2019 Beginning balances Beginning balances Projected benefit obligation $ (6,000 ) $ (6,504 ) Plan assets 5,760 6,336 Prior service cost-AOCI 600 552 Net loss-AOCI 720 786 At the end of 2018, Havana contributed $696 thousand to the pension fund and benefit payments of $624 thousand were made to retirees. The expected rate of return on plan assets was 10%, and the actuary's discount rate is 8%. There were no changes in actuarial estimates and assumptions regarding the PBO. What is Havana's 2018 actual return on plan assets?

In each of the cases below, assume division x has a product that can be sold either to outside customers or to division y of the same company for use in its production process. the managers of the divisions are evaluated based on their divisional profits. case a b division x: capacity in units 200,000 200,000 number of units being sold to outside customers 200,000 160,000 selling price per unit to outside customers $ 90 $ 75 variable costs per unit $ 70 $ 60 fixed costs per unit (based on capacity) $ 13 $ 8 division y: number of units needed for production 40,000 40,000 purchase price per unit now being paid to an outside supplier $ 86 $ 74 required: 1. refer to the data in case a above. assume in this case that $3 per unit in variable selling costs can be avoided on intracompany sales. a. what is the lowest acceptable transfer price from the perspective of the selling division? b. what is the highest acceptable transfer price from the perspective of the buying division? c. what is the range of acceptable transfer prices (if any) between the two divisions? if the managers are free to negotiate and make decisions on their own, will a transfer probably take place?

Wisconsin snowmobile corp. is considering a switch to level production. cost efficiencies would occur under level production, and after tax costs would decline by $36,000, but inventory would increase by $300,000. wisconsin snowmobile would have to finance the extra inventory at a cost of 13.5 percent.a. determine the extra cost or savings of switching over to level production. should the company go ahead and switch to level production? b how low would interest rates need to fall before level production would be feasible?

Now, use your previously-computed value as an approximation for sigma, and compute how many ears of the experimental corn the researcher needs in the study. don't forget, the margin of error and confidence level have already been given to you in a previous problem.