Magno cereal corporation uses a standard cost system to collect costs related to the production of its "crunchy pickle" cereal. the pickle (materials) standards for each batch of cereal produced are 1.4 pounds of pickles at a standard cost of $3.00 per pound. during the month of august, magno purchased 78,000 pounds of pounds at a total cost of $253,500. magno used all of these pickles to produce 60,000 batches of cereal. what is magno's materials quantity variance for the month of august? (points : 2) $1,500 unfavorable $18,000 favorable $19,500 unfavorable $54,000 unfavorable

You own a nonunion company with 93 nonexempt employees. all of these employ- ees pack books into boxes for shipment to customers throughout the united states. because of wide differences in performance, you have decided to try performance appraisal, something never done before. until now, you have given every worker the same size increase. now you want to measure performance and reward the best performers with bigger increases. without any further information, which of the five types of appraisal formats do you think would be most appropriate? justify your answer. do you anticipate any complaints, or other comments, from employees after you implement your new system?