On January 1, 2008, ABC Corporation had 10,000 shares of common stock and 2,000 shares of cumulative preferred stock outstanding. Each share of preferred stock is entitled to $2 of cash dividends per year. Because of cash flow issues, ABC only declared and paid $0.50 of cash dividends to each share of preferred stock in 2008. Net income for 2008 was $100,000. What was basic EPS for 2008

Oerstman, inc. uses a standard costing system and develops its overhead rates from the current annual budget.the budget is based on an expected annual output of 120,000 units requiring 480,000 direct labor hours.(practical capacity is 500,000 hours)annual budgeted overhead costs total $772,800, of which $556,800 is fixed overhead.a total of 119,300 units, using 478,000 direct labor hours, were produced during the year.actual variable overhead costs for the year were $260,400 and actual fixed overhead costs were $555,450.required: 1. compute the fixed overhead spending variance and indicate if favorable or unfavorable.2. compute the fixed overhead volume variance and indicate if favorable or unfavorable.

(a) what was the opportunity cost of non-gm food for many buyers before 2008? (b) why did they prefer the alternative? (c) what was the opportunity cost in 2008? (d) why did it change?

Match the different financial task to their corresponding financial life cycle phases