Wriston Company is preparing its cash budget for the upcoming month. The beginning cash balance for the month is expected to be $15,000. Budgeted cash disbursements are $72,500, while budgeted cash receipts are $89,600. Wriston Company wants to have an ending cash balance of $30,000. The excess (deficiency) of cash available over disbursements for the month would be

Martinez manufacturing applies overhead based on direct labor hours. the company estimates that their overhead for the year will be $180,000, and that they will use 72,000 direct labor hours. during the year, martinez manufacturing actually used 75,000 direct labor hours and actual overhead costs were $190,000. at the end of the year, manufacturing overhead was: overapplied by $2,500. overapplied by $10,000. underapplied by $2,500. underapplied by $10,000.

(a) what do you think will happen if the price of non-gm crops continues to rise? why? (b) what will happen if the price of non-gm food drops? why?

The management of a supermarket wants to adopt a new promotional policy of giving a free gift to every customer who spends > a certain amount per visit at this supermarket. the expectation of the management is that after this promotional policy is advertised, the expenditures for all customers at this supermarket will be normally distributed with a mean of $95 and a standard deviation of $20. if the management wants to give free gifts to at most 10% of the customers, what should the amount be above which a customer would receive a free gift?