Walthaus Corporation's standard cost sheet is as follows: Direct material 4 feet at $5.00 per foot

Direct labor 3 hours at $10.00 per hour

Variable overhead 3 hours at $2.00 per hour

Fixed overhead 3 hours at $1.00 per hour

Additional information:

Actual results: purchased 30,000 lbs of material at $5.25 per lb. (there were no beginning or ending material inventories); direct labor cost incurred was 26,000 hours at $9.75 per hour; actual variable overhead incurred, $50,000; and actual fixed overhead incurred $43,000.

Overhead is applied to work-in-process on the basis of direct labor hours.

The company produced 8,000 units of product during the period.

The number of estimated hours for computing the fixed overhead application rate totaled 45,000 hours.

What are the fixed overhead price and production volume variances?

The legal form of business ownership that is owned by many people is called a

Peninsula products has just applied for a loan at your bank. when reviewing peninsula's books for the year that just ended, you notice that the firm uses the fair value option for its bonds payable. you also see that the firm recorded a $55,000 debit in its bonds payable account and a $55,000 credit in its unrealized holding gain or loss"income account. over that same period, interest rates decreased by about 0.5 percent. how should this information affect the bank's decision as to whether to grant peninsula a loan? a : the bank should strongly consider giving a loan to peninsula because the changes in firm's bonds payable and unrealized holding gain or loss"income accounts suggest that peninsula has seen an increase in its credit rating over the past year. b : the bank should put little emphasis on the changes in peninsula's bonds payable and unrealized holding gain or loss"income accounts because these changes are likely the result of the rise in interest rates. c : the bank should hesitate before giving a loan to peninsula because the changes in firm's bonds payable and unrealized holding gain or loss"income accounts suggest that peninsula has seen a decline in its credit rating over the past year. d : the bank should put little emphasis on the changes in peninsula's bonds payable and unrealized holding gain or loss"income accounts because these changes are likely unrelated to either interest rates or the firm's credit rating.

Grey company holds an overdue note receivable of $800,000 plus recorded accrued interest of $64,000. the effective interest rate is 8%. as the result of a court-imposed settlement on december 31, year 3, grey agreed to the following restructuring arrangement: reduced the principal obligation to $600,000.forgave the $64,000 accrued interest.extended the maturity date to december 31, year 5.annual interest of $40,000 is to be paid to grey on december 31, year 4 and year 5. the present value of the interest and principal payments to be received by grey company discounted for two years at 8% is $585,734. grey does not elect the fair value option for reporting the debt modification. on december 31, year 3, grey would recognize a valuation allowance for impaired loans of