The following information describes a company's usage of direct labor in a recent period. the direct labor efficiency variance is:

actual hours used 45,000
actual rate per hour $15.00
standard rate per hour $14.50
standard hours for units produced 47,000

a. $29,000 unfavorable.
b. $29,000 favorable.
c. $22,500 unfavorable.
d. $52,500 favorable.
e. $52,500 unfavorable.

You were able to purchase two tickets to an upcoming concert for $100 apiece when the concert was first announced three months ago. recently, you saw that stubhub was listing similar seats for $225 apiece. what does it cost you to attend the concert?

Brandt enterprises is considering a new project that has a cost of $1,000,000, and the cfo set up the following simple decision tree to show its three most likely scenarios. the firm could arrange with its work force and suppliers to cease operations at the end of year 1 should it choose to do so, but to obtain this abandonment option, it would have to make a payment to those parties. how much is the option to abandon worth to the firm?

Storico co. just paid a dividend of $3.15 per share. the company will increase its dividend by 20 percent next year and then reduce its dividend growth rate by 5 percentage points per year until it reaches the industry average of 5 percent dividend growth, after which the company will keep a constant growth rate forever. if the required return on the company’s stock is 12 percent, what will a share of stock sell for today?