Parks Corporation currently manufactures 3,000 staplers annually for its main product. The costs per stapler are as follows: Direct materials $ 3 Direct labor 7 Variable overhead 4 Fixed overhead 7 Total $ 21 Gallup Company has contacted Parks with an offer to sell it 3,000 staplers for $18 each. $5 of the fixed overhead per unit is unavoidable. Prepare an incremental analysis for the make-or-buy decision. (Enter negative amounts using either a negative sign preceding the number e. g. -45 or parentheses e. g. (45).) $ $

Performance bicycle company makes steel and titanium handle bars for bicycles. it requires approximately 1 hour of labor to make one handle bar of either type. during the most recent accounting period, barr company made 7,700 steel bars and 2,300 titanium bars. setup costs amounted to $35,000. one batch of each type of bar was run each month. if a single company-wide overhead rate based on direct labor hours is used to allocate overhead costs to the two products, the amount of setup cost assigned to the steel bars will be:

Dan wants to start a supermarket in his hometown, and wants to get into the business only after finding out about the market and how successful his business might be. the best way for dan to gain knowledge is to:

Which of the following is true concerning the 5/5 lapse rule? a) the 5/5 lapse rule deems that a taxable gift has been made where a power to withdraw in excess of $5,000 or five percent of the trust assets is lapsed by the powerholder. b) the 5/5 lapse rule only comes into play with a single beneficiary trust. c) amounts that lapse under the 5/5 lapse rule qualify for the annual exclusion. d) gifts over the 5/5 lapse rule do not have to be disclosed on a gift tax return.