Crystal charm company makes handcrafted silver charms that attach to jewelry such as a necklace or bracelet. each charm is adorned with two crystals of various colors. standard costs follow: standard quantity standard price (rate) standard unit cost silver 0.65 oz. $ 25.00 per oz. $ 16.25 crystals 5.00 $ 0.50 crystal 2.50 direct labor 2.00 hrs. $ 15.00 per hr. 30.00 during the month of january, crystal charm made 1,500 charms. the company used 935 ounces of silver (total cost of $24,310) and 7,550 crystals (total cost of $3,624.00), and paid for 3,150 actual direct labor hours (cost of $45,675.00).
required:

1. calculate crystal charm’s direct materials variances for silver and crystals for the month of january.
2. calculate crystal charm’s direct labor variances for the month of january.

Which of the following statements is true? a. financial investment refers to the creation and expansion of business enterprisesb. economic investment refers to the creation and expansion of business enterprisesc. economic investment refers to the purchase of assets such as stocks, bonds, and real estated. both economic and financial investment refer to the purchase of assets such as stocks, bonds, and real estate

Lynch company manufactures and sells a single product. the following costs were incurred during the company’s first year of operations: variable costs per unit: manufacturing: direct materials $ 12 direct labor $ 6 variable manufacturing overhead $ 1 variable selling and administrative $ 1 fixed costs per year: fixed manufacturing overhead $ 308,000 fixed selling and administrative $ 218,000 during the year, the company produced 28,000 units and sold 15,000 units. the selling price of the company’s product is $56 per unit. required: 1. assume that the company uses absorption costing: a. compute the unit product cost. b. prepare an income statement for the year. 2. assume that the company uses variable costing: a. compute the unit product cost. b. prepare an income statement for the year.

Label each of the following statements true, false, or uncertain. explain your choice carefully. a. workers benefit equally from the process of creative destruction. b. in the past two decades, the real wages of low-skill u.s. workers have declined relative to the real wages of high-skill workers. c. technological progress leads to a decrease in employment if, and only if, the increase in output is smaller than the increase in productivity. d. the apparent decrease in the natural rate of unemployment in the united states in the second-half of the 1990s can be explained by the fact that productivity growth was unexpectedly high during that period.