Jake’s roof repair has provided the following data concerning its costs:
- fixed cost per month cost per repair-hour
wages and salaries $ 23,200 $ 16.30
parts and supplies $ 8.60
equipment depreciation $ 1,600 $ 0.40
truck operating expenses $ 6,400 $ 1.70
rent $ 3,480
administrative expenses $ 4,500 $ 0.80
for example, wages and salaries should be $23,200 plus $16.30 per repair-hour. the company expected to work 2,800 repair-hours in may, but actually worked 2,900 repair-hours. the company expects its sales to be $44.50 per repair-hour.
required:
compute the company’s activity variances for may.

3. now assume that carnival booked lady antebellum in december 2016 to perform on the june 2017 western caribbean cruise. further assume that carnival pays lady antebellum its entire performance fee of $52,000 on december 28, 2016, for the june 2017 cruise. what journal entry will carnival make on december 28, 2016, for its payment to lady antebellum?

Throne technical university is looking for three people to work in its plant-biology laboratory. the hiring manager is finding that the most suitable job candidates live in other countries and are not willing to move to the city where the university is located. which situation is the university facing? a. lack of flexible workforce b. surpluses in labor talent c. an appearance of quota systems d. deficits in minimum wage demands

Nichols inc. manufactures remote controls. currently the company uses a plantminuswide rate for allocating manufacturing overhead. the plant manager is considering switchingminusover to abc costing system and has asked the accounting department to identify the primary production activities and their cost drivers which are as follows: activities cost driver allocation rate material handling number of parts $5 per part assembly labor hours $20 per hour inspection time at inspection station $10 per minute the current traditional cost method allocates overhead based on direct manufacturing labor hours using a rate of $20 per labor hour. what are the indirect manufacturing costs per remote control assuming an method is used and a batch of 10 remote controls are produced? the batch requires 100 parts, 5 direct manufacturing labor hours, and 3 minutes of inspection time.