Nternational expansion. zach wants to expand his coffee business internationally - into zeno, a small remote country in africa. his best friend zora asks him if he plans to hire legal counsel for the expansion. zach replies, "of course not. the u. s. has the strictest laws regarding contracts, employment, and business practices. so long as i'm legal here, i'm legal anywhere. besides, i studied up on zeno law ten years ago, and i know it all." zach proceeds and lands in jail in the remote country of zeno for violating recently passed laws protecting employees and mandating certain benefits. authorities there claim that he sexually harassed an employee, failed to pay sufficient wages, and failed to give employees zeno's mandated 12 weeks of vacation per year. which of the following is true regarding zach's defense that he thought he knew the law of zeno because he had studied it some years before and that the laws under which he was arrested were new?

Problem 2-18 job-order costing for a service company [lo2-1, lo2-2, lo2-3]speedy auto repairs uses a job-order costing system. the company's direct materials consist of replacement parts installed in customer vehicles, and its direct labor consists of the mechanics' hourly wages. speedy's overhead costs include various items, such as the shop manager's salary, depreciation of equipment, utilities, insurance, and magazine subscriptions and refreshments for the waiting room. the company applies all of its overhead costs to jobs based on direct labor-hours. at the beginning of the year, it made the following estimates: direct labor-hours required to support estimated output 10,000fixed overhead cost $ 90,000variable overhead cost per direct labor-hour $ 1.00 required: 1. compute the predetermined overhead rate.2. during the year, mr. wilkes brought in his vehicle to replace his brakes, spark plugs, and tires. the following information was available with respect to his job: direct materials $ 600direct labor cost $ 180direct labor-hours used 2 compute mr. wilkes' total job cost. 3. if speedy establishes its selling prices using a markup percentage of 30% of its total job cost, then how much would it have charged mr. wilkes?

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Retirement investment advisors, inc., has just offered you an annual interest rate of 4.4 percent until you retire in 40 years. you believe that interest rates will increase over the next year and you would be offered 5 percent per year one year from today. if you plan to deposit $13,000 into the account either this year or next year, how much more will you have when you retire if you wait one year to make your deposit?