Listed below are a few transactions and events of Maxum Company. a. Employees earn vacation pay at a rate of one day per month. During December, 23 employees qualify for one vacation day each. Their average daily wage is $160 per employee.
b. During December, Maxum Company sold 3,900 units of a product that carries a 60-day warranty. December sales for this product total $123,000. The company expects 7% of the units to need warranty repairs, and it estimates the average repair cost per unit will be $19.

Required:
Prepare any necessary adjusting entries at December 31, 2013, for Maxum Company’s year-end financial statements for each of the above separate transactions and events.

Who is better at multi-tasking? in business, employees are often asked to perform a complex task when their atten-tion is divided (i.e., multi-tasking). human factors (may 2014) published a study designed to determine whether video game players are better than non–video game play-ers at multi-tasking. each in a sample of 60 college stu-dents was classified as a video game player or a non-player. participants entered a street crossing simulator and were asked to cross a busy street at an unsigned intersec-tion. the simulator was designed to have cars traveling at various high rates of speed in both directions. during the crossing, the students also performed a memory task as a distraction. two variables were measured for each student: (1) a street crossing performance score (measured out of 100 points) and (2) a memory task score (measured out of 20 points). the researchers found no differences in either the street crossing performance or memory task score of video game players and non-gamers. “these results,” say the researchers, “suggest that action video game players [and non-gamers] are equally susceptible to the costs of dividing attention in a complex task”