PE 22-1B Flexible budgeting At the beginning of the period, the Assembly Department budgeted direct labor of $112,000 and property tax of $12,000 for 7,000 hours of production. The department actually completed 7,500 hours of production. Determine the budget for the department, assuming that it uses flexible budgeting. • Variable cost: o Direct labor (600 hours × $14.50* per hour)………………………… • Fixed cost: o Equipment depreciation……………………………………………………… • Total department costs……………………………………………………………………

Accublade castings inc. casts blades for turbine engines. within the casting department, alloy is first melted in a crucible, then poured into molds to produce the castings. on may 1, there were 230 pounds of alloy in process, which were 60% complete as to conversion. the work in process balance for these 230 pounds was $32,844, determined as follows: exercises during may, the casting department was charged $350,000 for 2,500 pounds of alloy and $19,840 for direct labor. factory overhead is applied to the department at a rate of 150% of direct labor. the department transferred out 2,530 pounds of finished castings to the machining department. the may 31 inventory in process was 44% complete as to conversion. prepare the following may journal entries for the casting department: the materials charged to production the conversion costs charged to production the completed production transferred to the machining department determine the work in process"casting department may 31 balance.

Abond purchased for $950 was sold for $980 after one year. the interest received during the year is $25. the bond's yield is:

Tony prince is the project manager for the recreation and wellness intranet project. team members include you, a programmer/analyst and aspiring project manager; patrick, a network specialist; nancy, a business analyst; and bonnie, another programmer/analyst. other people are supporting the project from other departments, including yusaff from human resources and cassandra from finance. assume that these are the only people who can be assigned and charged to work on project activities. recall that your schedule and cost goals are to complete the project in six months for under $200,000.task 2identify at least eight milestones for the recreation and wellness intranet project. write a short paper describing each milestone using the smart criteria. discuss how determining these milestones might add activities or tasks to the gantt chart. remember that milestones normally have no duration, so you must have tasks that will lead to completing the milestone.