SkyChefs, Inc., prepares in-flight meals for a number of major airlines. One of the company’s products is grilled salmon in dill sauce with baby new potatoes and spring vegetables. During the most recent week, the company prepared 4,300 of these meals using 1,250 direct labor-hours. The company paid its direct labor workers a total of $11,250 for this work, or $9.00 per hour. According to the standard cost card for this meal, it should require 0.30 direct labor-hours at a cost of $8.50 per hour. Required: 1. What is the standard labor-hours allowed (SH) to prepare 4,300 meals? 2. What is the standard labor cost allowed (SH × SR) to prepare 4,300 meals? 3. What is the labor spending variance? 4. What is the labor rate variance and the labor efficiency variance?

The cost of direct labor used in production is recorded as a? a. credit to work-in-process inventory account. b. credit to wages payable. c. credit to manufacturing overhead account. d. credit to wages expense.

Which of the following distribution systems offers speed and reliability when emergency supplies are needed overseas? a. railroadsb. airfreightc. truckingd. pipelinese. waterways

In 2018, laureen is currently single. she paid $2,800 of qualified tuition and related expenses for each of her twin daughters sheri and meri to attend state university as freshmen ($2,800 each for a total of $5,600). sheri and meri qualify as laureen’s dependents. laureen also paid $1,900 for her son ryan’s (also laureen’s dependent) tuition and related expenses to attend his junior year at state university. finally, laureen paid $1,200 for herself to attend seminars at a community college to her improve her job skills.what is the maximum amount of education credits laureen can claim for these expenditures in each of the following alternative scenarios? a. laureen's agi is $45,000.b. laureen’s agi is $95,000.c. laureen’s agi is $45,000 and laureen paid $12,000 (not $1,900) for ryan to attend graduate school (i.e, his fifth year, not his junior year).