Each hour from 10am to 7pm, Zeith Bank receives checks and must process them. Its goal is to process all the checks the same day they are received. The bank has 16 check-processing machines, each of which can process up to 400 checks per hour. Its takes one worker to operate each machine. Zeith Bank hires both full-time and part-time workers. Full time workers work 10am-6pm,11am-7pm, or noo-8pm and are paid $190 per day. Part-time workers work either 1-pm-6pm or 3pm -8pm and are paid $85 per day. The number of checks received each hour is given in the table below. In the interest of maintaining continuity, Zeith Bank belives that it must have at least four full-time workers under contract. Time Checks Received10am 4,00011am 3,000noon 4,0001pm 2,7002pm 3,0003pm 3,0004pm 4,3005pm 3,5006pm 3,2507pm 2,500a. Clearly define decision variables required to solve the problem of developing a cost-minizing work scheduled that process all checks by 8pm. b. Formulate a linear program (LP) to solve this problem.

Salvador county issued $25 million of 5% demand bonds for construction of a county maintenance building. the county has no take-out agreement related to the bonds. it estimates that 20% of the bonds would be demanded (called) by the buyers if interest rates increased at least 1%. at year-end rates on comparable debt were 7%. how should these demand bonds be reported in the government-wide financial statements at year-end? a) $25 million in the long-term liability section of the governmental activities column. b) $5 million in the current liability section of the governmental activities column and $20 million in the long-term liabilities section of the governmental activities column. c) $5 million in the governmental activities column and $20 million would be reported in the schedule of changes in long-term debt obligations. d) $25 million in the current liability section of the governmental activities column

Price and efficiency variances, journal entries. the schuyler corporation manufactures lamps. it has set up the following standards per finished unit for direct materials and direct manufacturing labor: direct materials: 10 lb. at $4.50 per lb. $45.00 direct manufacturing labor: 0.5 hour at $30 per hour 15.00 the number of finished units budgeted for january 2017 was 10,000; 9,850 units were actually produced. actual results in january 2017 were as follows: direct materials: 98,055 lb. used direct manufacturing labor: 4,900 hours $154,350 assume that there was no beginning inventory of either direct materials or finished units. during the month, materials purchased amounted to 100,000 lb., at a total cost of $465,000. input price variances are isolated upon purchase. input-efficiency variances are isolated at the time of usage. 1. compute the january 2017 price and efficiency variances of direct materials and direct manufacturing labor. 2. prepare journal entries to record the variances in requirement 1. 3. comment on the january 2017 price and efficiency variances of schuyler corporation. 4. why might schuyler calculate direct materials price variances and direct materials efficiency variances with reference to different points in time

Match the steps for conducting an informational interview with the tasks in each step.