XYZ Company applies overhead to jobs using direct labor cost as an activity. For the current year, XYZ's estimated overhead was $144,000 while the actual overhead cost totaled $136,000. For the current year, XYZ's estimated direct labor cost was $240,000 and its actual direct labor cost amounted to $220,000. For the year, overhead was:

a. over-applied by $6,800
b. over-applied by $4,000
c. over-applied by $8,000
d. under-applied by $6,800
e. under-applied by $4,000
f. under-applied by $8,000

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The wall street journal reported that walmart stores inc. is planning to lay off 2,300 employees at its sam's club warehouse unit. approximately half of the layoffs will be hourly employees (the wall street journal, january 25-26, 2014). suppose the following data represent the percentage of hourly employees laid off for 15 sam's club stores. 55 56 44 43 44 56 60 62 57 45 36 38 50 69 65 (a) compute the mean and median percentage of hourly employees being laid off at these stores. (b) compute the first and third quartiles. (c) compute the range and interquartile range. (d) compute the variance and standard deviation. (e) do the data contain any outliers? (f) based on the sample data, does it appear that walmart is meeting its goal for reducing the number of hourly employees?

On january 2, 2018, bering co. disposes of a machine costing $34,100 with accumulated depreciation of $18,369. prepare the entries to record the disposal under each of the following separate assumptions. exercise 8-24a part 2 2. the machine is traded in for a newer machine having a $50,600 cash price. a $16,238 trade-in allowance is received, and the balance is paid in cash. assume the asset exchange has commercial substance.