Marilyn terrill is the senior auditor for the audit of uden supply company for the year ended december 31, 20x4. in planning the audit, marilyn is attempting to develop expectations for planning analytical procedures based on the financial information for prior years and her knowledge of the business and the industry, including:

Aproperty title search firm is contemplating using online software to increase its search productivity. currently an average of 40 minutes is needed to do a title search. the researcher cost is $2 per minute. clients are charged a fee of $400. company a's software would reduce the average search time by 10 minutes, at a cost of $3.50 per search. company b's software would reduce the average search time by 12 minutes at a cost of $3.60 per search. which option would have the higher productivity in terms of revenue per dollar of input?

Driving would be more pleasant if we didn't have to put up with the bad habits of other drivers. a newspaper reported the results of a valvoline oil company survey of 500 drivers in which the drivers marked their complaints about other drivers. the top complaints turned out to be tailgating, marked by 24% of the respondents; not using turn signals, marked by 19%; being cut off, marked by 15%; other drivers driving too slowly, marked by 12%; and other drivers being inconsiderate marked by 5%.

Mandalay hotel bases its budgets on guest-days. the hotel's static budget for august appears below: budgeted number of guest-days 4,300 budgeted variable costs: supplies (@$9.60 per guest-day) $ 41,280 laundry (@$9.40 per guest-day) 40,420 total variable cost 81,700 budgeted fixed costs: wages and salaries 57,190 occupancy costs 52,030 total fixed cost 109,220 total cost $ 190,920 the total cost at the activity level of 5,200 guest-days per month should be: