Elliot Industries invests a portion of its profits each year into a benefit emergency health care account for its employees. For the last five years it has invested year-end amounts of $50,000, $43,000, $26,000, $61,000, and $84,000. If the last deposit ($84,000) was made today and the account earns an average of 7.3% per year, how much money is currently in the account, assuming there have been no withdrawals

The production manager of rordan corporation has submitted the following quarterly production forecast for the upcoming fiscal year: 1st quarter 2nd quarter 3rd quarter 4th quarter units to be produced 10,800 8,500 7,100 11,200 each unit requires 0.25 direct labor-hours, and direct laborers are paid $20.00 per hour. required: 1. prepare the company’s direct labor budget for the upcoming fiscal year. assume that the direct labor workforce is adjusted each quarter to match the number of hours required to produce the forecasted number of units produced. 2. prepare the company’s direct labor budget for the upcoming fiscal year, assuming that the direct labor workforce is not adjusted each quarter. instead, assume that the company’s direct labor workforce consists of permanent employees who are guaranteed to be paid for at least 2,500 hours of work each quarter. if the number of required direct labor-hours is less than this number, the workers are paid for 2,500 hours anyway. any hours worked in excess of 2,500 hours in a quarter are paid at the rate of 1.5 times the normal hourly rate for direct labor.

Jallouk corporation has two different bonds currently outstanding. bond m has a face value of $50,000 and matures in 20 years. the bond makes no payments for the first six years, then pays $2,100 every six months over the subsequent eight years, and finally pays $2,400 every six months over the last six years. bond n also has a face value of $50,000 and a maturity of 20 years; it makes no coupon payments over the life of the bond. the required return on both these bonds is 10 percent compounded semiannually. what is the current price of bond m and bond n?

Corporation had a japanese yen receivable resulting from exports to japan and a brazilian real payable resulting from imports from brazil. gracie recorded foreign exchange gains related to both its yen receivable and real payable. did the foreign currencies increase or decrease in dollar value from the date of the transaction to the settlement date?