Gulf Breeze Corporation produces three products for water skiing enthusiasts: life vests, tow ropes, and water skis. Information relating to each product line is as follows. Life Vests Tow Ropes Water Skis Selling price $ 58 $ 25 $ 175 Direct materials 12 3 75 Direct labor 20 10 80 Variable overhead 6 2 4 Gulf Breeze pays its direct labor workers an average of $10 per hour. At full capacity, 65,000 direct labor hours are available per year. The marketing department has just released the following sales estimates for the upcoming year: life vests (25,000 units), tow ropes (15,000 units), and water skis (5,000 units). Based on these figures, demand for the current year is expected to exceed the company's direct labor capacity. a-1. Calculate the total hours required to meet demand of each products. a-2. What products should Gulf Breeze produce to maximize its operating income

Terry, a self-employed laboratory consultant specializing in white mice, attended a convention in paris concerning the care and feeding of white mice. the convention was held in paris since most of the white mice specialists in the world are located in france. terry's expenses were $1,600 for airfare, $400 for food, and $400 for lodging. terry spent 5 days at the convention and 3 days visiting friends. how much can she deduct for the trip?

Onsider the following subscription behavior information from genie, a web site that provides tools for constructing a family tree (ancestor search). subscriptions cost $9.99 per month, but you are charged for the entire year at the time of purchase. there is a one-year minimum term when you sign up for the service. once purchased, subscriptions are set to renew automatically unless the subscriber cancels them. when a membership renews, it renews for a one-year term and again you are charged for the entire year. there are no variable costs associated with providing this service to an individual customer, but genie does engage in customer relationship activities that they believe will increase customer retention. these customer relationship activities cost genie about $10 per year per customer. based on a sample of 1000 customers that joined genie five years ago, near the time when the company was founded, they were able to determine how many of those customers remained subscribers in the second year, third year etc. based on this information, genie calculated the average annual retention rate to be 20%. genie uses an annual discount rate of 8%. a. last year, genie spent $10,000 placing advertisements on google. genie management believes that these advertisements were responsible for about 300 new subscribers. would you recommend to genie management that they purchase more google ads? b. suppose a newly-introduced loyalty program increases the number of customers that remained to 30%. does this new data change your answer to 9.a? c. do you have any hesitations or concerns about making recommendations to management based on your above estimate of customer lifetime value?

Pear co.’s income statement for the year ended december 31, as prepared by pear’s controller, reported income before taxes of $125,000. the auditor questioned the following amounts that had been included in income before taxes: equity in earnings of cinn co. $ 40,000 dividends received from cinn 8,000 adjustments to profits of prior years for arithmetical errors in depreciation (35,000) pear owns 40% of cinn’s common stock, and no acquisition differentials are relevant. pear’s december 31 income statement should report income before taxes of