Greeson Clothes Company produced 21,000 units during June of the current year. The Cutting Department used 4,000 direct labor hours at an actual rate of $13.6 per hour. The Sewing Department used 6,600 direct labor hours at an actual rate of $13.3 per hour. Assume there were no work in process inventories in either department at the beginning or end of the month. The standard labor rate is $13.5. The standard labor time for the Cutting and Sewing departments is 0.2 hour and 0.3 hour per unit, respectively.

a. Determine the direct labor rate variance, direct labor time variance and total direct labor cost variance for the Cutting Department and Sewing Department. Enter a favorable variance as a negative number using a minus sign and an unfavorable variance as a positive number.

Sharon had some insider information about a corporate takeover. she unintentionally informed a friend, who immediately bought the stock in the target corporation. the takeover occurred and the friend made a substantial profit from buying and selling the stock. the friend told sharon about his stock dealings, and gave her a pearl necklace because she "made it all possible." the necklace was worth $10,000, but she already owned more jewelry than she desired.

The lee family is looking to buy a house in one of two suburban areas just outside of a major city, and air quality is a top priority for them. overall air quality is calculated by taking measures in 100 locations within each suburb and then calculating a measure of central tendency. in one suburb, there is a major bus station that creates very poor air quality at its location but has no impact in the surrounding parts of the suburb. in this situation, which measure of overall suburb air quality would be most useful?

Horace society is planning its annual western fair raceway gala. the gala committee has assembled the following expected costs for the event: dinner (per person) $10 gaming token and program (per person) $2 prize payouts $4,300 tickets and advertising $800 private box suite rental $1,700 lottery licenses $200 the committee members would like to charge $40 per person for the evening’s activities.required: 1. what is the break-even point for the dinner-dance (in terms of the number of persons who must attend)? 2. assume that last year only 200 persons attended the dinner-dance. if the same number attend this year, what price per ticket must be charged in order to break even? 3. refer to the original data ($40 ticket price per person). prepare a cvp graph for the dinner- dance from zero tickets up to 600 tickets sold.