On january 1, 2018, national insulation corporation (nic) leased equipment from united leasing under a finance lease. lease payments are made annually. title does not transfer to the lessee and there is no purchase option or guarantee of a residual value by nic. portions of the united leasing's lease amortization schedule appear below: jan. 1 payments effective interest decrease in balance outstanding balance 2018 192,501 2018 20,000 20,000 172,501 2019 20,000 17,250 2,750 169,751 2020 20,000 16,975 3,025 166,726 2021 20,000 16,673 3,327 163,399 2022 20,000 16,340 3,660 159,739 2023 20,000 15,974 4,026 155,713 — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 2035 20,000 7,364 12,636 61,006 2036 20,000 6,101 13,899 47,107 2037 20,000 4,711 15,289

Which of the following is an example of the use of fiscal policy by the u. s. government? a. congress makes it illegal for the police union to go on strike. b. the federal reserve bank lowers the interest rate on loans to corporations. c. the department of transportation increases spending on highway repairs. d. the supreme court rules that unions have the right to collective bargaining. 2b2t

Price and efficiency variances, journal entries. the schuyler corporation manufactures lamps. it has set up the following standards per finished unit for direct materials and direct manufacturing labor: direct materials: 10 lb. at $4.50 per lb. $45.00 direct manufacturing labor: 0.5 hour at $30 per hour 15.00 the number of finished units budgeted for january 2017 was 10,000; 9,850 units were actually produced. actual results in january 2017 were as follows: direct materials: 98,055 lb. used direct manufacturing labor: 4,900 hours $154,350 assume that there was no beginning inventory of either direct materials or finished units. during the month, materials purchased amounted to 100,000 lb., at a total cost of $465,000. input price variances are isolated upon purchase. input-efficiency variances are isolated at the time of usage. 1. compute the january 2017 price and efficiency variances of direct materials and direct manufacturing labor. 2. prepare journal entries to record the variances in requirement 1. 3. comment on the january 2017 price and efficiency variances of schuyler corporation. 4. why might schuyler calculate direct materials price variances and direct materials efficiency variances with reference to different points in time

Cool beans is a locally owned coffee shop that competes with two large coffee chains, planeteuro and frothies. alicia, the owner, hired two students to count the number of customers that entered each of the coffee shops to estimate what percent of people who are interested in coffee are visiting each shop. after a week, the students found the following results: 589 visited cool beans, 839 visited planeteuro, and 1,290 visited frothies. the students were surprised that cool beans had 139 visits on monday which represented 59% of all people who visited one of the three coffee shops on mondays. how many people visited one of the three coffee shops during the week?