Four years ago, mr. b sold his personal property on contract for $200,000, which resulted in a capital gain of $100,000. mr. b properly elected to use the installment method of reporting and through last year had collected $40,000 on the contract. at the start of this year, the buyer defaulted on the contract, and mr. b repossessed the property. at the time of repossession, the property had a fair market value of $160,000. what is the gain or loss to be reported on the repossession?

Doogan corporation makes a product with the following standard costs: standard quantity or hours standard price or rate direct materials 2.0 grams $ 7.00 per gram direct labor 1.6 hours $ 12.00 per hour variable overhead 1.6 hours $ 6.00 per hour the company produced 5,000 units in january using 10,340 grams of direct material and 2,320 direct labor-hours. during the month, the company purchased 10,910 grams of the direct material at $7.30 per gram. the actual direct labor rate was $12.85 per hour and the actual variable overhead rate was $5.80 per hour. the company applies variable overhead on the basis of direct labor-hours. the direct materials purchases variance is computed when the materials are purchased. the materials quantity variance for january is: