You have just received a sizable inheritance. After paying off your personal debts, you have $500,000 remaining to begin a new business in your local area. 1. Perform an analysis of your local area. What market exists in your area with unfulfilled needs or wants? What kind of retail stores do you wish were available? What are the demographics of your town? Have you heard people talking about a store they wish was open for business in your town? What types of businesses do well in your town?

Theodore is researching computer programming he thinks that this career has a great employment outlook so he’d like to learn if it’s a career in which he would excel what to skills are important for him to have and becoming a successful computer programmer

Oceanside marine company manufactures special metallic materials and decorative fittings for luxury yachts that require highly skilled labor. oceanside uses standard costs to prepare its flexible budget. for the first quarter of the year, direct materials and direct labor standards for one of their popular products were as follows: direct materials: 2 pound per unit; $ 11 per pound direct labor: 2 hours per unit; $ 19 per hour oceanside produced 2 comma 000 units during the quarter. at the end of the quarter, an examination of the direct materials records showed that the company used 7 comma 500 pounds of direct materials and actual total materials costs were $ 98 comma 100. what is the direct materials cost variance? (round any intermediate calculations to the nearest cent, and your final answer to the nearest dollar.)

Frolic corporation has budgeted sales and production over the next quarter as follows. the company has 4100 units of product on hand at july 1. 10% of the next months sales in units should be on hand at the end of each month. october sales are expected to be 72000 units. budgeted sales for september would be: july august september sales in units 41,500 53,500 ? production in units 45,700 53,800 58,150