Puget Sound Divers is a company that provides diving services such as underwater ship repairs to clients in the Puget Sound area. The company’s planning budget for May appears below: Puget Sound Divers
Planning Budget
For the Month Ended May 31
Budgeted diving-hours (q) 300
Revenue ($440.00q) $ 132,000
Expenses:
Wages and salaries ($11,400 + $128.00q) 49,800
Supplies ($5.00q) 1,500
Equipment rental ($2,400 + $25.00q) 9,900
Insurance ($3,800) 3,800
Miscellaneous ($510 + $1.48q) 954
Total expense 65,954
Net operating income $ 66,046
During May, the company’s actual activity was 290 diving-hours.
prepare a flexible budget for May.

(blank) is the type of competition that occurs in a competitive market without identical producers.

Which of the following statements about the relationship between economic costs and accounting costs is true? multiple choice accounting costs are equal to or greater than economic costs. accounting costs must always equal economic costs. accounting costs are always greater than economic costs. accounting costs are always less than or equal to economic costs.

You are chairman of the board of a successful technology firm. there is a nominal federal corporate tax rate of 35 percent, yet the effective tax rate of the typical corporation is about 12.6%. your firm has been clever with use of transfer pricing and keeping money abroad and has barely paid any taxes over the last 5 years; during this same time period, profits were $28 billion. one member of the board feels that it is un-american to use various accounting strategies in order to avoid paying taxes. others feel that these are legal loopholes and corporations have a fiduciary responsibility to minimize taxes. one board member quoted what the ceo of exxon once said: “i’m not a u.s. company and i don’t make decisions based on what’s good for the u.s.” what are the alternatives? what are your recommendations? why do you recommend this course of action?