Jim is the senior salesperson at Ace Electronics in Queens, New York. Ace’s sales were over $15 million during 2018. At Ace’s holiday party on December 20, 2018, Brandon, the president of Ace Electronics, in a speech, publicly praised Jim and stated that Jim would receive an additional $75,000 bonus for Jim’s excellent performance in 2018. During the second week of January 2019, Ace experienced an unprecedented number of returns of defective merchandise which eliminated much of Ace’s profits for 2018. Brandon blamed Jim for this turn of events and re-fused to pay the $75,000 bonus. Jim sues Ace for the $75,000 bonus.
Required:
1. Judgment for whom? Explain fully.
2. Would your answer to (1) be different if Brandon's promise to Jim was in a signed email that he sent to Jim after the holiday party? Explain fully.

Oceanside marine company manufactures special metallic materials and decorative fittings for luxury yachts that require highly skilled labor. oceanside uses standard costs to prepare its flexible budget. for the first quarter of the year, direct materials and direct labor standards for one of their popular products were as follows: direct materials: 2 pound per unit; $ 11 per pound direct labor: 2 hours per unit; $ 19 per hour oceanside produced 2 comma 000 units during the quarter. at the end of the quarter, an examination of the direct materials records showed that the company used 7 comma 500 pounds of direct materials and actual total materials costs were $ 98 comma 100. what is the direct materials cost variance? (round any intermediate calculations to the nearest cent, and your final answer to the nearest dollar.)

John and daphne are saving for their daughter ellen's college education. ellen just turned 10 at (t = 0), and she will be entering college 8 years from now (at t = 8). college tuition and expenses at state u. are currently $14,500 a year, but they are expected to increase at a rate of 3.5% a year. ellen should graduate in 4 years--if she takes longer or wants to go to graduate school, she will be on her own. tuition and other costs will be due at the beginning of each school year (at t = 8, 9, 10, and 11).so far, john and daphne have accumulated $15,000 in their college savings account (at t = 0). their long-run financial plan is to add an additional $5,000 in each of the next 4 years (at t = 1, 2, 3, and 4). then they plan to make 3 equal annual contributions in each of the following years, t = 5, 6, and 7. they expect their investment account to earn 9%. how large must the annual payments at t = 5, 6, and 7 be to cover ellen's anticipated college costs? a. $1,965.21b. $2,068.64c. $2,177.51d. $2,292.12e. $2,412.76

According to the video, the gross national product had declined from $104 billion in 1929 to about in 1933.