Fran Powers created the following budget and reported the actual spending listed. Calculate the variance for each of these categories and indicate whether it was a deficit or a surplus.

Item budgeted actual variance deficit/surplus
Food $350 $298
Transportation 320 337
Housing 950 982
Clothing 100 134
Personal 275 231

He aldermanalderman company has prepared a sales budget of 42 comma 00042,000 finished units for a 3-month period. the company has an inventory of 10 comma 00010,000 units of finished goods on hand at december 31 and has a target finished goods inventory of 11 comma 00011,000 units at the end of the succeeding quarter. it takes 44 gallons of direct materials to make one unit of finished product. the company has inventory of 64 comma 00064,000 gallons of direct materials at december 31 and has a target ending inventory of 53 comma 00053,000 gallons at the end of the succeeding quarter. how many gallons of direct materials should aldermanalderman company purchase during the 3 months ending march 31? select the labels and enter the amounts to calculate the direct materials (gallons) to be purchased.

Karen is working on classifying all her company’s products in terms of whether they have strong or weak market share and whether this share is in a slow or growing market. what type of strategic framework is she using?

Given the production function q=96(k^0.3)(l^0.7), find the mpk and mpl functions. is mpk a function of k alone, or of both k and l? what about mpl?