Which statement is the most accurate assessment of the historical role of the AFL in the labor movement? In its early years, the AFL operated as one union, but soon split into two interdependent groups and became
known as the AFL-CIO.
In its early years, the AFL was a federation of craft unions that championed basic labor issues.
In its early years, the AFL attracted a lot of public attention and political support because it was the first truly
national labor organization in the United States.
In its early years, the AFL had limited success because it suffered from poor leadership.

Find the interest rate for a $4000 deposit accumulating to $5234.58, compounded quarterly for 9 years

Guardian inc. is trying to develop an asset-financing plan. the firm has $450,000 in temporary current assets and $350,000 in permanent current assets. guardian also has $550,000 in fixed assets. assume a tax rate of 40 percent. a. construct two alternative financing plans for guardian. one of the plans should be conservative, with 70 percent of assets financed by long-term sources, and the other should be aggressive, with only 56.25 percent of assets financed by long-term sources. the current interest rate is 12 percent on long-term funds and 7 percent on short-term financing. compute the annual interest payments under each plan.

Wallis company manufactures only one product and uses a standard cost system. the company uses a predetermined plantwide overhead rate that relies on direct labor-hours as the allocation base. all of the company's manufacturing overhead costs are fixed—it does not incur any variable manufacturing overhead costs. the predetermined overhead rate is based on a cost formula that estimated $2,886,000 of fixed manufacturing overhead for an estimated allocation base of 288,600 direct labor-hours. wallis does not maintain any beginning or ending work in process inventory.