Judd Company uses standard costs for its manufacturing division. Standards specify 0.2 direct labor hours per unit of product. The allocation base for variable overhead costs is direct labor hours. At the beginning of the year, the static budget for variable overhead costs included the following data: Production volume 6 comma 200 units Budgeted variable overhead costs $ 13 comma 500 Budgeted direct labor hours 640 hours At the end of the year, actual data were as follows: Production volume 4 comma 200 units Actual variable overhead costs $ 15 comma 200 Actual direct labor hours 495 hours What is the variable overhead cost variance? (Round any intermediate calculations to the nearest cent, and your final answer to the nearest dollar.)

Net income and owner's equity for four businesses four different proprietorships, jupiter, mars, saturn, and venus, show the same balance sheet data at the beginning and end of a year. these data, exclusive of the amount of owner's equity, are summarized as follows: total assets total liabilities beginning of the year $550,000 $215,000 end of the year 844,000 320,000 on the basis of the preceding data and the following additional information for the year, determine the net income (or loss) of each company for the year. (hint: first determine the amount of increase or decrease in owner's equity during the year.) jupiter: the owner had made no additional investments in the business and had made no withdrawals from the business. mars: the owner had made no additional investments in the business but had withdrawn $36,000. saturn: the owner had made an additional investment of $60,000 but had made no withdrawals. venus: the owner had made an additional investment of $60,000 and had withdrawn $36,000. jupiter net income $ mars net income $ saturn net income $ venus net income $

The returns on the common stock of maynard cosmetic specialties are quite cyclical. in a boom economy, the stock is expected to return 22 percent in comparison to 9 percent in a normal economy and a negative 14 percent in a recessionary period. the probability of a recession is 35 percent while the probability of a boom is 10 percent. what is the standard deviation of the returns on this stock?

In a transportation minimization problem, the negative improvement index associated with a cell indicates that reallocating units to that cell would lower costs.truefalse