Direct Labor Variances for a Service Company Hit-n-Run Food Trucks, Inc. owns and operates food trucks (mobile kitchens) throughout the west coast. The company's employees have varying wage levels depending on their experience and length of time with the company. Employees work 8-hour shifts and are assigned to a truck each day based on labor needs to support the daily menu. One of its trucks, Jose O'Brien's Mobile Fiesta, specializes in Irish-Mexican fusion cuisine. The truck offers a single menu item that changes daily. On November 11, the truck prepared 200 of its most popular item, the Irish Breakfast Enchilada. The following data are available for that day: Quantity of direct labor used 24 hrs. (3 employees, working 8 hour shifts) Actual rate for direct labor $15.00 per hr. Standard direct labor per meal 0.1 hr. Standard rate for direct labor $15.50 per hr. a. Determine the direct labor rate variance, direct labor time variance, and total direct labor cost variance. Enter a favorable variance as a negative number using a minus sign and an unfavorable variance as a positive number. Direct Labor Rate Variance $ Direct Labor Time Variance $ Total Direct Labor Cost Variance $ b. Discuss what might have caused these variances.

Danny "dimes" donahue is a neighborhood's 9-year-old entrepreneur. his most recent venture is selling homemade brownies that he bakes himself. at a price of $2 each, he sells 100. at a price of $1.5 each, he sells 300. instructions: round your answer to 1 decimal place. a. what is the elasticity of demand? 3.50 â± 0.1 . b. is demand elastic or inelastic over this price range? . c. if demand had the same elasticity for a price decline from $1.5 to $1 as it does for the decline from $2 to $1.5, would cutting the price from $1.5 to $1 increase or decrease danny's total revenue? .

Afirm's before-tax cost of debt, rd, is the interest rate that the firm must pay on debt. because interest is tax deductible, the relevant cost of debt used to calculate a firm's wacc is the cost of debt, rd (1 – t). the cost of debt is used in calculating the wacc because we are interested in maximizing the value of the firm's stock, and the stock price depends on cash flows. it is important to emphasize that the cost of debt is the interest rate on debt, not debt because our primary concern with the cost of capital is its use in capital budgeting decisions. the rate at which the firm has borrowed in the past is because we need to know the cost of capital. for these reasons, the on outstanding debt (which reflects current market conditions) is a better measure of the cost of debt than the . the on the company's -term debt is generally used to calculate the cost of debt because more often than not, the capital is being raised to fund -term projects. quantitative problem: 5 years ago, barton industries issued 25-year noncallable, semiannual bonds with a $1,600 face value and a 8% coupon, semiannual payment ($64 payment every 6 months). the bonds currently sell for $845.87. if the firm's marginal tax rate is 40%, what is the firm's after-tax cost of debt? round your answer to 2 decimal places. do not round intermediate calcu

True or false: a fitted model with more predictors will necessarily have a lower training set error than a model with fewer predictors.