The following data is given for the stringer company: budgeted production 26,000 units actual production 27,500 units materials: standard price per ounce $6.50 standard ounces per completed unit 8 actual ounces purchased and used in production 228,000 actual price paid for materials $1,504,800 labor: standard hourly labor rate $22 per hour standard hours allowed per completed unit 6.6 actual labor hours worked 183,000 actual total labor costs $4,020,000 overhead: actual and budgeted fixed overhead $1,029,600 standard variable overhead rate $24.50 per standard labor hour actual variable overhead costs $4,520,000 overhead is applied on standard labor hours. the direct materials price variance is

select one:

a. $22,800 unfavorable
b. $22,800 favorable
c. $52,000 unfavorable
d. $52,000 favorable

If the family’s net monthly income is 7,800 what percent of the income is spent on food clothing and housing?

Costco wholesale corporation operates membership warehouses selling food, appliances, consumer electronics, apparel and other household goods at 471 locations across the u.s. as well as in canada, mexico and puerto rico. as of its fiscal year-end 2005, costco had approximately 21.2 million members. selected fiscal-year information from the company's balance sheets follows. ($ millions). selected balance sheet data 2005 2004 merchandise inventories $4,015 $3,644 deferred membership income (liability) 501 454 (a) during fiscal 2005, costco collected $1,120 cash for membership fees. use the financial statement effectstemplate to record the cash collected for membership fees. (b) in 2005, costco recorded $46,347 million in merchandise costs (that is, cost of goods sold). record thistransaction in the financial statement effects template. (c) determine the value of merchandise that costco purchased during fiscal-year 2005. use the financial statementeffects template to record these merchandise purchases. assume all of costco's purchases are on credit.

Suppose that the u.s. dollars-mexican pesos exchange rate is fixed by the u.s. and mexican governments. assume also that labor is mobile between the united states and mexico due to low transportation costs.which of the following situations is likely to happen as a result of a simultaneous increase in the demand for u.s. goods and decrease in the demand for mexican goods? (pick mexican unemployment rate increases, and the country undergoes bad economic times for a sustained u.s. unemployment rate increases, and the country undergoes bad economic times for a sustained mexican unemployment rate rises at first, but it soon drops as unemployed mexicans move to the united states for mexican unemployment rate rises at first, but then it drops as mexican pesos depreciate against u.s. dollars.