Calaf’s drillers erects and places into service an off-shore oil platform on january 1, 2018, at a cost of $10,000,000. calaf is legally required to dismantle and remove the platform at the end of its useful life in 10 years. calaf estimates it will cost $1,000,000 to dismantle and remove the platform at the end of its useful life in 10 years. (the fair value at january 1, 2018, of the dismantle and removal costs is $450,000.) prepare the entry to record the asset retirement obligation. (if no entry is required, select "no entry" for the account titles and enter 0 for the amounts. credit account titles are automatically indented when amount is entered. do not indent manually.)

The following cost data pertain to the operations of montgomery department stores, inc., for the month of july. corporate legal office salaries $ 75,300apparel department cost of sales"evendale store $ 97,200corporate headquarters building lease $ 50,300store manager's salary"evendale store $ 12,900apparel department sales commission"evendale store $ 11,550store utilities"evendale store $ 12,800apparel department manager's salary"evendale store $ 10,450central warehouse lease cost $ 18,600janitorial costs"evendale store $ 11,800 the evendale store is just one of many stores owned and operated by the company. the apparel department is one of many departments at the evendale store. the central warehouse serves all of the company's stores. required: 1. what is the total amount of the costs listed above that are direct costs of the apparel department? 2. what is the total amount of the costs listed above that are direct costs of the evendale store? 3. what is the total amount of the apparel department's direct costs that are also variable costs with respect to total departmental sales?

True or false entrepreneurs try to meet the needs of the marketplace by supplying a service or product

Performance bicycle company makes steel and titanium handle bars for bicycles. it requires approximately 1 hour of labor to make one handle bar of either type. during the most recent accounting period, barr company made 7,700 steel bars and 2,300 titanium bars. setup costs amounted to $35,000. one batch of each type of bar was run each month. if a single company-wide overhead rate based on direct labor hours is used to allocate overhead costs to the two products, the amount of setup cost assigned to the steel bars will be: