Milar Corporation makes a product with the following standard costs: Standard Quantity or Hours Standard Price or Rate Direct materials 2.0 pounds $ 7.00 per pound Direct labor 1.1 hours $ 19.00 per hour Variable overhead 1.1 hours $ 7.00 per hour In January the company produced 4,800 units using 10,170 pounds of the direct material and 2,150 direct labor-hours. During the month, the company purchased 10,740 pounds of the direct material at a cost of $76,620. The actual direct labor cost was $38,251 and the actual variable overhead cost was $11,952. The company applies variable overhead on the basis of direct labor-hours. The direct materials purchases variance is computed when the materials are purchased. The materials price variance for January is:

Trey morgan is an employee who is paid monthly. for the month of january of the current year, he earned a total of $4,538. the fica tax for social security is 6.2% of the first $118,500 earned each calendar year, and the fica tax rate for medicare is 1.45% of all earnings for both the employee and the employer. the amount of federal income tax withheld from his earnings was $680.70. his net pay for the month is .

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Rate of return douglas keel, a financial analyst for orange industries, wishes to estimate the rate of return for two similar-risk investments, x and y. douglas's research indicates that the immediate past returns will serve as reasonable estimates of future returns. a year earlier, investment x had a market value of $27 comma 000; and investment y had a market value of $46 comma 000. during the year, investment x generated cash flow of $2 comma 025 and investment y generated cash flow of $ 6 comma 770. the current market values of investments x and y are $28 comma 582 and $46 comma 000, respectively. a. calculate the expected rate of return on investments x and y using the most recent year's data. b. assuming that the two investments are equally risky, which one should douglas recommend? why?