Heavy Products, Inc. developed standard costs for direct material and direct labor. In 2017, AII estimated the following standard costs for one of their major products, the 10−gallon plastic container. Budgeted quantity Budgeted price Direct materials 0.7 pounds $90 per pound Direct labor 0.05 hours $20 per hour During June, Heavy Products produced and sold 24,000 containers using 1,500 pounds of direct materials at an average cost per pound of $92 and 1,200 direct manufacturing labor−hours at an average wage of $91.25 per hour. The direct manufacturing labor efficiency variance during June is .

Acoase solution to a problem of externality ensures that a socially efficient outcome is to

Label each of the following statements true, false, or uncertain. explain your choice carefully. a. workers benefit equally from the process of creative destruction. b. in the past two decades, the real wages of low-skill u.s. workers have declined relative to the real wages of high-skill workers. c. technological progress leads to a decrease in employment if, and only if, the increase in output is smaller than the increase in productivity. d. the apparent decrease in the natural rate of unemployment in the united states in the second-half of the 1990s can be explained by the fact that productivity growth was unexpectedly high during that period.

Aneighborhood home owners association suspects that the recent appraisal values of the houses in the neighborhood conducted by the county government for taxation purposes is too high. it hired a private company to appraise the values of ten houses in the neighborhood. the results, in thousands of dollars, are?