On January 1, 2021, Carla Vista Corporation signed a 5-year noncancelable lease for equipment. The terms of the lease called for Carla Vista to make annual payments of $195000 at the beginning of each year for 5 years beginning on January 1, 2021 with the title passing to Carla Vista at the end of this period. The equipment has an estimated useful life of 7 years and no salvage value. Carla Vista uses the straight-line method of depreciation for all of its fixed assets. Carla Vista accordingly accounts for this lease transaction as a finance lease. The lease payments were determined to have a present value of $813124 at an effective interest rate of 10%. In 2022, Carla Vista should record interest expense of:

a. $67994.
b. $48494.
c. $61812.
d. $42312.

The production manager of rordan corporation has submitted the following quarterly production forecast for the upcoming fiscal year: 1st quarter 2nd quarter 3rd quarter 4th quarter units to be produced 10,800 8,500 7,100 11,200 each unit requires 0.25 direct labor-hours, and direct laborers are paid $20.00 per hour. required: 1. prepare the company’s direct labor budget for the upcoming fiscal year. assume that the direct labor workforce is adjusted each quarter to match the number of hours required to produce the forecasted number of units produced. 2. prepare the company’s direct labor budget for the upcoming fiscal year, assuming that the direct labor workforce is not adjusted each quarter. instead, assume that the company’s direct labor workforce consists of permanent employees who are guaranteed to be paid for at least 2,500 hours of work each quarter. if the number of required direct labor-hours is less than this number, the workers are paid for 2,500 hours anyway. any hours worked in excess of 2,500 hours in a quarter are paid at the rate of 1.5 times the normal hourly rate for direct labor.