Pluton makes particular plastics for sale to the public and the government. basic cost data for a 100-pound drum of one particular product called xentra appears below: qty cost chemical xeta, gals 15 $ 25.00 chemical thenta, gals 35 $ 27.50 base material, lbs 20 $ 1.00 100-lb lined drum 1 $ 51.83 variable factory overheads are estimated to be $1,200,000 per month, when 1,000,000 pounds of various products are produced. the plant employs 20 chemical workers who typically work 175 hours each per month and are paid $24 per hour. other workers are classified as indirect and are included in fixed overheads. the highly automated plant typically runs 21,000 machine hours per month. the preparation of one 100 lbs batch of xentra needs ten minutes of direct labor and 75 minutes of machine time. fixed manufacturing overheads total $3,500,000 per month. forty percent of these fixed manufacturing overheads are labor-related costs and the balance are machine-related costs. a government agency wants to purchase 200 drums of xentra at cost plus a flat fee. which allocation method gives the profit-maximizing result?

Your grandmother told you a dollar doesn't go as far as it used to. she says the purchasing power of a dollar is much lesser than it used to be. explain what she means. try and use and explain terms like inflation and deflation in your answer.

When partners own different portions of the business, the terms should be stated clearly in what document? the articles of incorporation the executive summary the business summary the partnership agreement

Fred smithers, a recent college graduate decided to open his own portable juice bar, smithers smoothies, to wheel around newport beach. you, a trusted friend of fred, are a business major that has also recently graduated and agreed to handle the books for a while to get some practical experience and have a favor that you can ask of fred in the future. given the following five transactions concerning the new venture, prepare the necessary journal entries for the transactions, post the journal entries to appropriate t accounts and prepare a trial balance as of the end of the month in order to answer to the necessary may 2: fred invests $12,000 of his own money to start the new company. this money was obtained from a part-time job working at a legal firm while he was in school. may 3: fred spent $5,100 cash to purchase a refrigerated trailer that he can pull behind his car and set up at the beach. under your advice, fred agrees to place the new asset under an account called "equipment." may 6: fred bought $640 of supplies on account from the flav-o-rite confectioners company. because they will last longer than a single accounting period fred agrees to record them as, "supplies" as per your suggestion. may 13: fred sat on the beach for six hours without a single sale and was feeling very down. right before he left, however, a plumber escorting his family reunion along the beach stopped by his stand and bought $800 worth of smoothies for the entire family. under your advice, fred agrees to call this cash revenue, "sales." may 15: excited about his new venture, fred withdraws $350 from the company to take his girlfriend out to dinner. what would be the balance in the cash account at the end of the period following the posting of all the transactions?