Benson Concrete Company pours concrete slabs for single-family dwellings. Lancing Construction Company, which operates outside Benson’s normal sales territory, asks Benson to pour 49 slabs for Lancing’s new development of homes. Benson has the capacity to build 430 slabs and is presently working on 190 of them. Lancing is willing to pay only $2,590 per slab. Benson estimates the cost of a typical job to include unit-level materials, $860; unit-level labor, $580; and an allocated portion of facility-level overhead, $1,210. Calculate the contribution to profit from the special order. Should Visburg accept or reject the special order to pour 40 slabs for $3, 300 each?

Juniper company uses a perpetual inventory system and the gross method of accounting for purchases. the company purchased $9,750 of merchandise on august 7 with terms 1/10, n/30. on august 11, it returned $1,500 worth of merchandise. on august 26, it paid the full amount due. the correct journal entry to record the merchandise return on august 11 is:

Variable rate cd’s = $90 treasury bills = $150 discount loans = $20 treasury notes = $100 fixed rate cds = $160 money market deposit accts. = $140 savings deposits = $90 fed funds borrowing = $40 variable rate mortgage loans $140 demand deposits = $40 primary reserves = $50 fixed rate loans = $210 fed funds lending = $50 equity capital = $120 a. develop a balance sheet from the above data. be sure to divide your balance sheet into rate-sensitive assets and liabilities as we did in class and in the examples. b. perform a standard gap analysis and a duration analysis using the above data if you have a 1.15% decrease in interest rates and an average duration of assets of 5.4 years and an average duration of liabilities of 3.8 years. c. indicate if this bank will remain solvent after the valuation changes. if so, indicate the new level of equity capital after the valuation changes. if not, indicate the amount of the shortage in equity capital.

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