A-Z Construction Company was organized on May 1 of the current year. On May 2, A-Z Construction prepaid $18,480 to the city for taxes (license fees) for the next 12 months and debited the prepaid taxes account. A-Z Construction is also required to pay in January an annual tax (on property) for the current calendar year of $45,000.a) Journalize the two adjusting entries required to bring accounts affected by the two taxes up to date as of December 31, the end of current year. b) what is the amount of tax expense?

Oerstman, inc. uses a standard costing system and develops its overhead rates from the current annual budget.the budget is based on an expected annual output of 120,000 units requiring 480,000 direct labor hours.(practical capacity is 500,000 hours)annual budgeted overhead costs total $772,800, of which $556,800 is fixed overhead.a total of 119,300 units, using 478,000 direct labor hours, were produced during the year.actual variable overhead costs for the year were $260,400 and actual fixed overhead costs were $555,450.required: 1. compute the fixed overhead spending variance and indicate if favorable or unfavorable.2. compute the fixed overhead volume variance and indicate if favorable or unfavorable.

Environmentalists are concerned about emissions of sulfur dioxide into the air. the average number of days per year in which sulfur dioxide levels exceed 150 milligrams per cubic meter in milan, italy, is 29. the number of days per year in which emission limits are exceeded is normally distributed with a standard deviation of 4.0 days. what percentage of the years would exceed 37 days?

Consider a firm with a contract to sell an asset for $149,000 four years from now. the asset costs $85,000 to produce today. a. given a relevant discount rate of 14 percent per year, calculate the profit the firm will make on this asset. (a loss should be indicated by a minus sign. do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) b. at what rate does the firm just break even?