Granfield company has a piece of manufacturing equipment with a book value of $36,000 and a remaining useful life of four years. at the end of the four years the equipment will have a zero salvage value. the market value of the equipment is currently $21,200. granfield can purchase a new machine for $112,000 and receive $21,200 in return for trading in its old machine. the new machine will reduce variable manufacturing costs by $18,200 per year over the four-year life of the new machine. the total increase or decrease in net income by replacing the current machine with the new machine (ignoring the time value of money) is

Jurvin enterprises is a manufacturing company that had no beginning inventories. a subset of the transactions that it recorded during a recent month is shown below. $76,700 in raw materials were purchased for cash. $71,400 in raw materials were used in production. of this amount, $66,300 was for direct materials and the remainder was for indirect materials. total labor wages of $151,700 were incurred and paid. of this amount, $134,300 was for direct labor and the remainder was for indirect labor. additional manufacturing overhead costs of $126,300 were incurred and paid. manufacturing overhead of $126,800 was applied to production using the company's predetermined overhead rate. all of the jobs in process at the end of the month were completed. all of the completed jobs were shipped to customers. any underapplied or overapplied overhead for the period was closed to cost of goods sold. required: 1. post the above transactions to t-accounts.2. determine the cost of goods sold for the period.

The wall street journal reported that walmart stores inc. is planning to lay off 2,300 employees at its sam's club warehouse unit. approximately half of the layoffs will be hourly employees (the wall street journal, january 25-26, 2014). suppose the following data represent the percentage of hourly employees laid off for 15 sam's club stores. 55 56 44 43 44 56 60 62 57 45 36 38 50 69 65 (a) compute the mean and median percentage of hourly employees being laid off at these stores. (b) compute the first and third quartiles. (c) compute the range and interquartile range. (d) compute the variance and standard deviation. (e) do the data contain any outliers? (f) based on the sample data, does it appear that walmart is meeting its goal for reducing the number of hourly employees?

Why should managers invest any excess cash