Walters audio visual inc. offers an incentive stock option plan to its regional managers. on january 1, 2018, options were granted for 40 million $1 par common shares. the exercise price is the market price on the grant date—$8 per share. options cannot be exercised prior to january 1, 2020, and expire december 31, 2024. the fair value of the 40 million options, estimated by an appropriate option pricing model, is $1 per option. required: 1. determine the total compensation cost pertaining to the stock option plan. (enter your answer in millions (i. e., 10,000,000 should be entered as

The wall street journal reported that walmart stores inc. is planning to lay off 2,300 employees at its sam's club warehouse unit. approximately half of the layoffs will be hourly employees (the wall street journal, january 25-26, 2014). suppose the following data represent the percentage of hourly employees laid off for 15 sam's club stores. 55 56 44 43 44 56 60 62 57 45 36 38 50 69 65 (a) compute the mean and median percentage of hourly employees being laid off at these stores. (b) compute the first and third quartiles. (c) compute the range and interquartile range. (d) compute the variance and standard deviation. (e) do the data contain any outliers? (f) based on the sample data, does it appear that walmart is meeting its goal for reducing the number of hourly employees?

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Mordica company identifies three activities in its manufacturing process: machine setups, machining, and inspections. estimated annual overhead cost for each activity is $156,960, $382,800, and $84,640, respectively. the cost driver for each activity and the expected annual usage are number of setups 2,180, machine hours 25,520, and number of inspections 1,840. compute the overhead rate for each activity. machine setups $ per setup machining $ per machine hour inspections $ per inspection