EZ-Tax is a tax accounting practice with partners and staff members. Each billable hour of partner time has a $560 budgeted price and $280 budgeted variable cost. Each billable hour of staff time has a budgeted price of $120 and a budgeted variable cost of $70. For the most recent year, the partnership budget called for 8,400 billable partner-hours and 34,700 staff-hours. Actual results were as follows. Partner revenue $ 4,248,000 7,800 hours Staff revenue $ 4,105,000 34,000 hours Required: a. Compute the sales price variance. b. Compute the total sales activity variance. c. Compute the total sales mix variance. d. Compute the total sales quantity variance.

When color is used on a topographical drawing, black is used to represent what?

Onsider the following subscription behavior information from genie, a web site that provides tools for constructing a family tree (ancestor search). subscriptions cost $9.99 per month, but you are charged for the entire year at the time of purchase. there is a one-year minimum term when you sign up for the service. once purchased, subscriptions are set to renew automatically unless the subscriber cancels them. when a membership renews, it renews for a one-year term and again you are charged for the entire year. there are no variable costs associated with providing this service to an individual customer, but genie does engage in customer relationship activities that they believe will increase customer retention. these customer relationship activities cost genie about $10 per year per customer. based on a sample of 1000 customers that joined genie five years ago, near the time when the company was founded, they were able to determine how many of those customers remained subscribers in the second year, third year etc. based on this information, genie calculated the average annual retention rate to be 20%. genie uses an annual discount rate of 8%. a. last year, genie spent $10,000 placing advertisements on google. genie management believes that these advertisements were responsible for about 300 new subscribers. would you recommend to genie management that they purchase more google ads? b. suppose a newly-introduced loyalty program increases the number of customers that remained to 30%. does this new data change your answer to 9.a? c. do you have any hesitations or concerns about making recommendations to management based on your above estimate of customer lifetime value?

Why is efficiency an important economic goal?