Jenny spends 32 hours a week, 50 weeks a year, operating a bicycle rental store that she owns at a resort community. She also owns a music store in another city that is operated by a full-time employee. Jenny spends 140 hours per year working at the music store. She elects not to group them together as a single activity under the "appropriate economic unit" standard. Please determine whether operating a bicycle rental store and operating a music store are passive activities and explain.

Which of the following actions would be most likely to reduce potential conflicts of interest between stockholders and bondholders? a) compensating managers with stock options, b) financing risky projects with additional debt, c) the threat of hostile takeovers, d) the use of covenants in bond agreements that limit the firm's use of additional debt and constrain managers actions, e) abolishing the security and exchange commission

Laval produces lamps and home lighting fixtures. its most popular product is a brushed aluminum desk lamp. this lamp is made from components shaped in the fabricating department and assembled in the assembly department. information related to the 22,000 desk lamps produced annually follows.direct materials $280,000direct labor fabricating department (8,000 dlh × $24 per dlh) $192,000assembly department (16,600 dlh × $26 per dlh) $431,600machine hours fabricating department $15,200mhassembly department $20,850mhexpected overhead cost and related data for the two production departments follow.fabricating assemblydirect labor hours 150,000dlh 295,000dlhmachine hours 161,000mh 128,000mhoverhead cost $400,000 430,000required1. determine the plantwide overhead rate for laval using direct labor hours as a base.2. determine the total manufacturing cost per unit for the aluminum desk lamp using the plantwide overhead rate.3. compute departmental overhead rates based on machine hours in the fabricating department and direct labor hours in the assembly department.4. use departmental overhead rates from requirement 3 to determine the total manufacturing cost per unit for the aluminum desk lamps.

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