1. Read the following scenario and answer the question in 5-10 sentences. You work for a large company that manufactures metal piping. At a trade show, you meet the Mining Minister from a foreign government. She oversees all mining operations for that government. She tells you that the country is interested in exporting raw metal to the United States to supplement the country’s treasury. She is willing to sell the metal to you for a very fair price. You consult with your boss and are given permission to sign a contract for $1 million of the metal from that country. You negotiate with her and sign a contract where that country will provide you a certain quantity of metal from its mines each month for a certain price. Two weeks later, you receive a letter from her assistant stating that the country will not be delivering the metal. Your boss wants to sue that country’s government for breach of contract. Discuss whether or not you will be able to sue that country’s government in a U. S. court.

Sweeten company had no jobs in progress at the beginning of march and no beginning inventories. the company has two manufacturing departments--molding and fabrication. it started, completed, and sold only two jobs during march—job p and job q. the following additional information is available for the company as a whole and for jobs p and q (all data and questions relate to the month of march): molding fabrication total estimated total machine-hours used 2,500 1,500 4,000 estimated total fixed manufacturing overhead $ 10,000 $ 15,000 $ 25,000 estimated variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour $ 1.40 $ 2.20 job p job q direct materials $ 13,000 $ 8,000 direct labor cost $ 21,000 $ 7,500 actual machine-hours used: molding 1,700 800 fabrication 600 900 total 2,300 1,700 sweeten company had no underapplied or overapplied manufacturing overhead costs during the month. required: for questions 1-8, assume that sweeten company uses a plantwide predetermined overhead rate with machine-hours as the allocation base. for questions 9-15, assume that the company uses departmental predetermined overhead rates with machine-hours as the allocation base in both departments. 1. what was the company’s plantwide predetermined overhead rate? (round your answer to 2 decimal places.) next

Peyton taylor drew a map with scale 1 cm to 10 miles. on his map, the distance between silver city and golden canyon is 3.75 cm. what is the actual distance between silver city and golden canyon?

Your uncle is considering investing in a new company that will produce high quality stereo speakers. the sales price would be set at 1.5 times the variable cost per unit; the variable cost per unit is estimated to be $75.00; and fixed costs are estimated at $1,200,000. what sales volume would be required to break even, i. e., to have ebit = zero?