Uptown industries just decided to save $3,000 a quarter for the next three years. the money will earn 2.75 percent, compounded quarterly, and the first deposit will be made today. if the company had wanted to deposit one lump sum today, rather than make quarterly deposits, how much would it have had to deposit today to have the same amount saved at the end of the three years?

If you were running a company, what are at least two things you could do to improve its productivity.

If the economy were in the contracting phase of the business cycle, how might that affect your ability to find work?

Oerstman, inc. uses a standard costing system and develops its overhead rates from the current annual budget.the budget is based on an expected annual output of 120,000 units requiring 480,000 direct labor hours.(practical capacity is 500,000 hours)annual budgeted overhead costs total $772,800, of which $556,800 is fixed overhead.a total of 119,300 units, using 478,000 direct labor hours, were produced during the year.actual variable overhead costs for the year were $260,400 and actual fixed overhead costs were $555,450.required: 1. compute the fixed overhead spending variance and indicate if favorable or unfavorable.2. compute the fixed overhead volume variance and indicate if favorable or unfavorable.