Boilermaker House Painting Company incurs the following transactions for September. 1. September 3 Paint houses in the current month for $18,000 on account.
2. September 8 Purchase painting equipment for $19,000 cash.
3. September 12 Purchase office supplies on account for $3,100.
4. September 15 Pay employee salaries of $3,800 for the current month.
5. September 19 Purchase advertising to appear in the current month for $1,200 cash.
6. September 22 Pay office rent of $5,000 for the current month.
7. September 26 Receive $13,000 from customers in (1) above.
8. September 30 Receive cash of $5,600 in advance from a customer who plans to have his house painted in the following month.
Required:
1. Prepare journal entries for the above transactions.
2. Post each transaction to T-accounts and calculate the ending balances.
At the beginning of September, the company had the following account balances:
Cash $17,100
Accounts Receivable 800
Supplies 320
Equipment 5,600
Accounts Payable 700
Common Stock 16,000
Retained Earnings 7,120.
All other accounts had a beginning balance of zero.
3. Prepare a trial balance.

You decide to invest in a portfolio consisting of 25 percent stock a, 25 percent stock b, and the remainder in stock c. based on the following information, what is the expected return of your portfolio? state of economy probability of state return if state occurs of economy stock a stock b stock c recession .16 - 16.4 % - 2.7 % - 21.6 % normal .55 12.6 % 7.3 % 15.9 % boom .29 26.2 % 14.6 % 30.5 %

Laval produces lamps and home lighting fixtures. its most popular product is a brushed aluminum desk lamp. this lamp is made from components shaped in the fabricating department and assembled in the assembly department. information related to the 22,000 desk lamps produced annually follows.direct materials $280,000direct labor fabricating department (8,000 dlh × $24 per dlh) $192,000assembly department (16,600 dlh × $26 per dlh) $431,600machine hours fabricating department $15,200mhassembly department $20,850mhexpected overhead cost and related data for the two production departments follow.fabricating assemblydirect labor hours 150,000dlh 295,000dlhmachine hours 161,000mh 128,000mhoverhead cost $400,000 430,000required1. determine the plantwide overhead rate for laval using direct labor hours as a base.2. determine the total manufacturing cost per unit for the aluminum desk lamp using the plantwide overhead rate.3. compute departmental overhead rates based on machine hours in the fabricating department and direct labor hours in the assembly department.4. use departmental overhead rates from requirement 3 to determine the total manufacturing cost per unit for the aluminum desk lamps.

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