Black Cat Corp manufactures a product with the following full unit costs at a volume of 4,000 units:
Direct materials $ 200
Direct labor 80
Manufacturing overhead (30% variable) 150
Fixed Selling expenses 50
Administrative expenses (10% variable) 80
Total per unit $560
A company recently approached Black Cat's management with an offer to purchase 450 units for $550 each. Black Cat currently sells the product to dealers for $800 each. Black Cat's capacity is sufficient to produce the extra 450 units. No selling expenses would be incurred on the special order. If Black Cat's management accepts the offer, profits will
1. increase by $97,650
2. decrease by $24,000
3. increase by $66,800
4. decrease by $120,000

The wall street journal reported that walmart stores inc. is planning to lay off 2,300 employees at its sam's club warehouse unit. approximately half of the layoffs will be hourly employees (the wall street journal, january 25-26, 2014). suppose the following data represent the percentage of hourly employees laid off for 15 sam's club stores. 55 56 44 43 44 56 60 62 57 45 36 38 50 69 65 (a) compute the mean and median percentage of hourly employees being laid off at these stores. (b) compute the first and third quartiles. (c) compute the range and interquartile range. (d) compute the variance and standard deviation. (e) do the data contain any outliers? (f) based on the sample data, does it appear that walmart is meeting its goal for reducing the number of hourly employees?

Zeta corporation is a manufacturer of sports caps, which require soft fabric. the standards for each cap allow 2.00 yards of soft fabric, at a cost of $2.00 per yard. during the month of january, the company purchased 25,000 yards of soft fabric at $2.10 per yard, to produce 12,000 caps. what is zeta corporation's materials price variance for the month of january?

Four students are at an extracurricular activity fair at their high school and are trying to decide which clubs to join. some information about the students is listed in this chart: which describes which ctso each student should join?