Chillco Corporation produces containers of frozen food. During April, Chillco produced 790 cases of food and incurred the following actual costs.

Variable overhead $7,000
Fixed overhead 21,600
Actual labor cost(4,500 direct-labor hours) 93,150
Actual material cost (12,500 pounds purchased and used) 27,500

Overhead is budgeted and applied using direct-labor hours in a standard costing system. Standard cost and annual budget information are as follows:

Standard Costs per Case Direct labor (5 hours at $20 per hour) $100.00
Direct material (15 pounds at $1.90 per pound) 28.50
Variable overhead (5 direct-labor hours at $1.60 per hour) 8.00
Fixed overhead (5 direct-labor hours at $3 per hour) 15.00
Total $151.50

Annual Budget Information

Variable overhead $80,000
Fixed overhead $150,000
Planned activity for year 50,000 direct-labor hours

Required:
a. Prepare as complete an analysis of cost variances as is possible from the available data.
b. Build a spreadsheet: Construct an Excel spreadsheet to solve the preceding requirement. Show how the solution will change if the following information changes: the standard rates were $17.50 per hour for direct labor, and $1.60 per direct- labor hour for variable overhead.

To be able to better compare stock performance within the same industry, similar companies are grouped into? a)market sectors b) industry blocks c) performance sectors d) average earning blocks

Mr. smith recently faced a choice between being (a) an economics profes-sor, which pays $60,000/yr, or (b) a safari leader, which pays $50,000/yr. after careful deliberation, smith took the safari job, but it was a close call. "for a dollar more," he said, "i'd have gone the other way."now smith's brother-in-law approaches him with a business proposition. the terms are as follows: - smith must resign his safari job to work full-time in his brother-in-law's business.- smith must give his brother-in-law an interest-free loan of $100,000, which will be repaid in full if and when smith leaves the business. (smith currently has much more than $100,000 in the the business will pay smith a salary of $70,000/yr. he will receive no other payment from the business.the interest rate is 10 percent per year. apart from salary considerations, smith feels that working in the business would be just as enjoyable as being an economics professor. for simplicity, assume there is no uncertainty regarding either smith's salary in the proposed business or the security of his monetary investment in it. should smith join his brother-in-law and, if so, how small would smith's salary from the business have to be to make it not worthwhile for him to join? if not, how large would smith's salary from the business have to be to make it worthwhile for him to join?

Melissa is a very generous single woman. before this year, she had given over $11,400,000 in taxable gifts over the years and has completely exhausted her applicable credit amount. in the current year, melissa gave her daughter riley $100,000 and promptly filed her gift tax return. melissa did not make any other gifts this year. how much gift tax must riley pay the irs because of this transaction?