The management of elamin corporation is considering the purchase of a machine that would cost $365,695 and would have a useful life of 9 years. the machine would have no salvage value. the machine would reduce labor and other operating costs by $61,000 per year. the internal rate of return on the investment in the new machine is closest to (ignore income taxes.): (a) 9%(b) 11%(c) 12%(d) 10%

rural residential development company and suburban real estate corporation form a joint stock company. the longest duration a joint stock company can be formed for is

Evan company reports net income of $232,000 each year and declares an annual cash dividend of $100,000. the company holds net assets of $2,130,000 on january 1, 2017. on that date, shalina purchases 40 percent of evan's outstanding common stock for $1,066,000, which gives it the ability to significantly influence evan. at the purchase date, the excess of shalina’s cost over its proportionate share of evan’s book value was assigned to goodwill. on december 31, 2019, what is the investment in evan company balance (equity method) in shalina’s financial records?

Depasquale corporation is working on its direct labor budget for the next two months. each unit of output requires 0.61 direct labor-hours. the direct labor rate is $8.70 per direct labor-hour. the production budget calls for producing 6,700 units in may and 7,100 units in june. if the direct labor work force is fully adjusted to the total direct labor-hours needed each month, what would be the total combined direct labor cost for the two months?