On August 15, 2019, Sweet Co. invested idle cash by purchasing a call option on Counting Crows Inc. common shares for $792. The notional value of the call option is 880 shares, and the option price is $88. The option expires on January 31, 2020. The following data are available with respect to the call option.

Date Market price of counting crow share Time value of call option
September 30, 2019 $48 per share $180
December 31, 2019, $46 per share $65
January 15, 2020, $47 per share $30

Prepare the journal entries for Outcast for the following dates.
(a) Investment in a call option on Counting Crows shares on August 15, 2019.
(b) September 30, 2019-Outkast prepares financial statements.
(c) December 31, 2019-Outkast prepares financial statements.
(d) January 15, 2020-Outkast settles the call option on the Counting Crows shares.

Aquatic marine stores company manufactures special metallic materials and decorative fittings for luxury yachts that require highly skilled labor. aquatic uses standard costs to prepare its flexible budget. for the first quarter of the year, direct materials and direct labor standards for one of their popular products were as follows: direct materials: 3 pounds per unit; $ 6 per pound direct labor: 4 hours per unit; $ 19 per hour during the first quarter, aquatic produced 5 comma 000 units of this product. actual direct materials and direct labor costs were $ 65 comma 000 and $ 330 comma 000, respectively. for the purpose of preparing the flexible budget, calculate the total standard direct materials cost at a production volume of 5 comma 000 units.

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The management of a supermarket wants to adopt a new promotional policy of giving a free gift to every customer who spends > a certain amount per visit at this supermarket. the expectation of the management is that after this promotional policy is advertised, the expenditures for all customers at this supermarket will be normally distributed with a mean of $95 and a standard deviation of $20. if the management wants to give free gifts to at most 10% of the customers, what should the amount be above which a customer would receive a free gift?