Ty, a merchant, wrote to Marcus: "August 1, I offer to sell you one Model A Desktop Computer system, price $1,000. This is a firm offer for 30 days from the above date. (Signed) Ty." (a) On August 10, Marcus received a letter from Ty: "I hereby revoke my offer of August 1." On August 17, Marcus wrote to Ty: "I hereby accept your offer of August 1." Is there a contract? Explain.

The production manager of rordan corporation has submitted the following quarterly production forecast for the upcoming fiscal year: 1st quarter 2nd quarter 3rd quarter 4th quarter units to be produced 10,800 8,500 7,100 11,200 each unit requires 0.25 direct labor-hours, and direct laborers are paid $20.00 per hour. required: 1. prepare the company’s direct labor budget for the upcoming fiscal year. assume that the direct labor workforce is adjusted each quarter to match the number of hours required to produce the forecasted number of units produced. 2. prepare the company’s direct labor budget for the upcoming fiscal year, assuming that the direct labor workforce is not adjusted each quarter. instead, assume that the company’s direct labor workforce consists of permanent employees who are guaranteed to be paid for at least 2,500 hours of work each quarter. if the number of required direct labor-hours is less than this number, the workers are paid for 2,500 hours anyway. any hours worked in excess of 2,500 hours in a quarter are paid at the rate of 1.5 times the normal hourly rate for direct labor.

Acompany has $80,000 in outstanding accounts receivable and it uses the allowance method to account for uncollectible accounts. experience suggests that 6% of outstanding receivables are uncollectible. the current credit balance (before adjustments) in the allowance for doubtful accounts is $1,200. the journal entry to record the adjustment to the allowance account includes a debit to bad debts expense for $4,800. true or false

Stella company sells only two products, product a and product b. product a product b total selling price $50 $30 variable cost per unit $20 $10 total fixed costs $2,110,000 stella sells two units of product a for each unit it sells of product b. stella faces a tax rate of 40%. stella desires a net afterminustax income of $54,000. the breakeven point in units would be