Why does government regulation of the transportation industry create high numbers of jobs? (Select all that apply.) Regulation of the transportation industry actually takes away more jobs than it creates.

Because all commercial levels of transportation are subject to licensing, and certification requirements create jobs.

Government regulators are responsible for the health and safety of passengers, and growing concerns about security and terrorism are creating new jobs.

Many transportation carriers are private businesses which means that regulators must inspect and verify their compliance.

Show the changes to the t-accounts for the federal reserve and for commercial banks when the federal reserve buys $50 million in u.s. treasury bills. if the public holds a fixed amount of currency (so that all loans create an equal amount of deposits in the banking system), the minimum reserve ratio is 10%, and banks hold no excess reserves, by how much will deposits in the commercial banks change? by how much will the money supply change? show the final changes to the t-account for commercial banks when the money supply changes by this amount.

White company has two departments, cutting and finishing. the company uses a job-order costing system and computes a predetermined overhead rate in each department. the cutting department bases its rate on machine-hours, and the finishing department bases its rate on direct labor-hours. at the beginning of the year, the company made the following estimates: department cutting finishing direct labor-hours 6,000 30,000 machine-hours 48,000 5,000 total fixed manufacturing overhead cost $ 264,000 $ 366,000 variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour $ 2.00 " variable manufacturing overhead per direct labor-hour " $ 4.00 required: 1. compute the predetermined overhead rate for each department. 2. the job cost sheet for job 203, which was started and completed during the year, showed the following: department cutting finishing direct labor-hours 6 20 machine-hours 80 4 direct materials $ 500 $ 310 direct labor cost $ 108 $ 360 using the predetermined overhead rates that you computed in requirement (1), compute the total manufacturing cost assigned to job 203. 3. would you expect substantially different amounts of overhead cost to be assigned to some jobs if the company used a plantwide predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor-hours, rather than using departmental rates?

Down under products, ltd., of australia has budgeted sales of its popular boomerang for the next four months as follows: unit salesapril 74,000may 85,000june 114,000july 92,000the company is now in the process of preparing a production budget for the second quarter. past experience has shown that end-of-month inventory levels must equal 10% of the following month’s unit sales. the inventory at the end of march was 7,400 units.required: prepare a production budget by month and in total, for the second quarter.