A company's income statement showed the following: net income, $125,000 and depreciation expense, $30,300. An examination of the company's current assets and current liabilities showed the following changes: accounts receivable decreased $9,500; merchandise inventory increased $18,200; and accounts payable increased $3,500. Calculate the net cash provided or used by operating activities.

Dan wants to start a supermarket in his hometown, and wants to get into the business only after finding out about the market and how successful his business might be. the best way for dan to gain knowledge is to:

Which of the following is not one of the four principles of bottleneck management? a. increasing capacity at non-bottleneck stations is a mirageb. lost time at the bottleneck is lost system capacity. c. release work orders to the system at the bottleneck's capacity pace. d. increased bottleneck capacity is increased system capacity. e. bottlenecks should be moved to the end of the system process.

Doogan corporation makes a product with the following standard costs: standard quantity or hours standard price or rate direct materials 2.0 grams $ 7.00 per gram direct labor 1.6 hours $ 12.00 per hour variable overhead 1.6 hours $ 6.00 per hour the company produced 5,000 units in january using 10,340 grams of direct material and 2,320 direct labor-hours. during the month, the company purchased 10,910 grams of the direct material at $7.30 per gram. the actual direct labor rate was $12.85 per hour and the actual variable overhead rate was $5.80 per hour. 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 quantity variance for january is: