Caro Manufacturing has two production departments, Machining and Assembly, and two service departments, Maintenance and Cafeteria. Direct costs for each department and the proportion of service costs used by the various departments for the month of August follow: Proportion of Services Used by Department Direct Costs Maintenance Cafeteria Machining Assembly Machining $ 99,000 Assembly 64,400 Maintenance 40,000 — 0.2 0.5 0.3 Cafeteria 32,000 0.8 — 0.1 0.1 Caro estimates that the variable costs in the Maintenance Department total $14,500, and in the Cafeteria variable costs total $16,000. Avoidable fixed costs in the Maintenance Department are $9,000. Required: If Caro outsources the Maintenance Department, what is the maximum it can pay an outside vendor without increasing total costs? (Do not round intermediate calculations.)

Tony prince is the project manager for the recreation and wellness intranet project. team members include you, a programmer/analyst and aspiring project manager; patrick, a network specialist; nancy, a business analyst; and bonnie, another programmer/analyst. other people are supporting the project from other departments, including yusaff from human resources and cassandra from finance. assume that these are the only people who can be assigned and charged to work on project activities. recall that your schedule and cost goals are to complete the project in six months for under $200,000.task 2identify at least eight milestones for the recreation and wellness intranet project. write a short paper describing each milestone using the smart criteria. discuss how determining these milestones might add activities or tasks to the gantt chart. remember that milestones normally have no duration, so you must have tasks that will lead to completing the milestone.