As part of a strategic planning process, Midwest Power's senior executives determined positive findings from their SWOT analysis: (1) New regulations will provide tax credits for renewable ("green") power sources. (2) Their customers will pay higher prices for green power. (3) A competing power utility that
owns renewable power sources is struggling and might be a target to be acquired by Midwest Power. (4) As compared to their competitors, Midwest
Power's management team is one of the best in the industry. A strength of Midwest Power, per the SWOT analysis, is that

Jimmy owns an ice cream parlor. he designs a schedule for the different tasks the employees have to perform in order to prevent monotony at work. according to the schedule, if an employee makes waffle cones on a day, he serves ice creams the next day and clears the tables on the day after that. jimmy is using the approach at his ice cream parlor.

Accublade castings inc. casts blades for turbine engines. within the casting department, alloy is first melted in a crucible, then poured into molds to produce the castings. on may 1, there were 230 pounds of alloy in process, which were 60% complete as to conversion. the work in process balance for these 230 pounds was $32,844, determined as follows: exercises during may, the casting department was charged $350,000 for 2,500 pounds of alloy and $19,840 for direct labor. factory overhead is applied to the department at a rate of 150% of direct labor. the department transferred out 2,530 pounds of finished castings to the machining department. the may 31 inventory in process was 44% complete as to conversion. prepare the following may journal entries for the casting department: the materials charged to production the conversion costs charged to production the completed production transferred to the machining department determine the work in process"casting department may 31 balance.

Highland company produces a lightweight backpack that is popular with college students. standard variable costs relating to a single backpack are given below