You are an administrator working for the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, a state administrative agency. You are tasked with implementing a new and controversial pollution control rule. The media will be watching closely to ensure all required procedures are followed. Local citizens are requesting that the rule be implemented immediately and without a hearing because, they argue, the need for controls are so acute. A California environmental group is requesting that you consider the impacts of the rule on their state. A manufacturing lobbyist has asked you to decrease relevant pollution standards in the rule by 90%, even though you have significant evidence that current pollution levels are dangerously high. Assuming that Maine administrative law, including the Administrative Procedure Act, is substantially the same as federal law discussed in this chapter, evaluate your responses to these requests in light of rules you need to follow. You want to avoid having your rule held unlawful and set aside by a court.

Answer:

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Explanation:

the environmental protection department has to apply the pollution control rule through a good examination of the effect it would have on all stakeholders if it is passed.

local citizens: for this group the best way to respond to their request is by making sure that the rule is applied in a timely manner. they have to be given the assurance that environmental implications would be reduced to the highest possible extent by this rule and that this rule would prove to be effective.

california environmental group: the request of this group is valid and they have to get the assurance that the effect of rule on the state have been studied well enough and that policies to lower environmental effects would be put in place as much as possible.

manufacturing lobbyist: theirs is a critical request. passing the rule would obviously increase necessary pollution standards. to ensure the lobbyist is made awarebof this, administrative agency has to have a meeting with the lobbyist and the person has to be made aware of the new position and current standards that are obtainable to organizations that are in manufacturing, as well the opportunities that are open to them. it is good to do this clearly in other to avoid any future confrontations of any kind.

Player Corporation purchased 100 percent of Scout Company's common stock on January 1, 20X5, and paid $28,000 above book value. The full amount of the additional payment was attributed to amortizable assets with a life of eight years remaining at January 1, 20X5. During 20X5 and 20X6, Scout reported net income of $33,000 and $6,000 and paid dividends of $15,000 and $12,000, respectively. Player uses the equity method in accounting for its investment in Scout and reported a balance in its investment account of $161,000 on December 31, 20X6.Required:Compute the amount paid by Player to purchase Scout shares.

The following information is available for Moiz Company:________.
Debit Credit
Common Stock $30,000
Retained Earnings 20,000
Dividends $30,000
Sales Revenue 510,000
Sales Returns and Allowances 20,000
Sales Discounts 7,000
Cost of Goods Sold 310,000
Freight-Out 2,000
Advertising Expense 15,000
Interest Expense 19,000
Salaries and Wages Expense 55,000
Utilities Expense 18,000
Depreciation Expense 7,000
Interest Revenue 23,000
Using the above information, prepare the closing entries for Moiz Company. (Credit account titles are automatically indented when amount is entered. Do not indent manually.)

The maintenance director has grown to value your insights and thoughtful questions when preparing bid packets to support her team's best work. As it turns out, her predecessor verbally modified the LED lights' model ordered by your employer when the original, awarded bid reponse included the model number for LEDs noted by the maintenance staff--that were not compatible with the fixtures of the company buildings/structures. When the maintenance director asks your opinion about her plan to amend the existing contract with the LED supplier to the model numbers actually used, as opposed to the ones listed in the contract that are not compliant with the existing features. That's what they have been doing so you should probably amend the contract as the director suggests, and you will save more time (no rebidding) and money (no additional modifications to the facility) than rebidding.

a. True
b. False

a. Fethe's Funny Hats is considering selling trademarked, orange-haired curly wigs for University of Tennessee football games. The purchase cost for a 2-year franchise to sell the wigs is $20,000. If demand is good (40% probability), then the net cash flows will be $27,000 per year for 2 years. If demand is bad (60% probability), then the net cash flows will be $6,000 per year for 2 years. Fethe's cost of capital is 13%. What is the expected NPV of the project?

b. If Fethe makes the investment today, then it will have the option to renew the franchise fee for 2 more years at the end of Year 2 for an additional payment of $20,000. In this case, the cash flows that occurred in Years 1 and 2 will be repeated (so if demand was good in Years 1 and 2, it will continue to be good in Years 3 and 4). Write out the decision tree. Note: The franchise fee payment at the end of Year 2 is known, so it should be discounted at the risk-free rate, which is 4%. Use decision-tree analysis to calculate the expected NPV.

Which of these is a placeholder in a document into which variable data is inserted during the process of a mail merge?
O data source
O main document
merge field
O none of the above

A 50-kilowatt gas turbine has an investment cost of $40,000. It costs another $14,000 for shipping, insurance, site preparation, fuel lines, and fuel storage tanks. The operation and maintenance expense for this turbine is $450 per year. Additionally, the hourly fuel expense for running the turbine is $7.50 per hour, and the turbine is expected to operate 3,000 hours each year. The cost of dismantling and disposing of the turbine at the end of its 8-year life is $8,000.

Required:
a. If the MARR is 15% per year, what is the annual equivalent life-cycle cost of the gas turbine?
b. What percent of annual life-cycle cost is related to fuel?

A (Static) Using T accounts to record all business transactions. LO 3-1, 3-2, 3-4
The following accounts and transactions are for Vincent Sutton, Landscape Consultant.
Transactions:
Sutton invested $90,000 in cash to start the business.
Paid $6,000 for the current month’s rent.
Bought office furniture for $10,580 in cash.
Performed services for $8,200 in cash.
Paid $1,250 for the monthly telephone bill.
Performed services for $14,000 on credit.
Purchased a computer and copier for $18,000; paid $7,200 in cash immediately with the balance due in 30 days.
Received $7,000 from credit clients.
Paid $2,800 in cash for office cleaning services for the month.
Purchased additional office chairs for $5,800; received credit terms of 30 days.
Purchased office equipment for $22,000 and paid half of this amount in cash immediately; the balance is due in 30 days.
Issued a check for $9,400 to pay salaries.
Performed services for $14,500 in cash.
Performed services for $16,000 on credit.
Collected $8,000 on accounts receivable from charge customers.
Issued a check for $2,900 in partial payment of the amount owed for office chairs.
Paid $725 to a duplicating company for photocopy work performed during the month.
Paid $1,280 for the monthly electric bill.
Sutton withdrew $5,500 in cash for personal expenses.
Post the above transactions into the appropriate T accounts.
Analyze:
What liabilities does the business have after all transactions have been recorded?
Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below.
Transactions
Analyze
Post the above transactions into the appropriate T accounts.
Cash Accounts Receivable
Bal.
Bal.
Office Furniture Office Equipment
Bal. Bal.
Accounts Payable Vincent Sutton, Capital
Bal.
Bal.
Vincent Sutton, Drawing Fees Income
Bal.
Bal.
Rent Expense Utilities Expense
Bal. Bal.
Salaries Expense Telephone Expense
Bal. Bal.
Miscellaneous Expense
Bal.
Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below.
What liabilities does the business have after all transactions have been recorded?
Liabilities

World Company expects to operate at 80% of its productive capacity of 67,500 units per month. At this planned level, the company expects to use 32,400 standard hours of direct labor. Overhead is allocated to products using a predetermined standard rate of 0.600 direct labor hour per unit. At the 80% capacity level, the total budgeted cost includes $68,040 fixed overhead cost and $408,240 variable overhead cost. In the current month, the company incurred $472,000 actual overhead and 29,400 actual labor hours while producing 51,000 units.

Required:
a. Compute the overhead volume variance.
b. Compute the overhead controllable variance.

The shoe buyer plans to promote flip-flop sandals at $24.99. The buyer needs to purchase10,000 flip flops for the event. 6,000 flip-flop sandals have been purchased at a cost of $11.50. The planned markup for the event is 59.0%. What will be the average cost of the remaining sandals?

Help me please!!!!
Explain possible circumstances under which an adult child may
have undue influence in a relationship with an elderly parent.

Chelene had been a caregiver for Marta’s elderly mother, Janis, for nine years. Shortly before Janis passed away, Chelene convinced her to buy Chelene’s house for Marta. Janis died before the papers were signed, however. Four months later, Marta used her inheritance to buy Chelene’s house without having it inspected. The house was built in the 1950s, and Chelene said it was in "perfect condition." Nevertheless, one year after the purchase, the basement started leaking. Marta had the paneling removed from the basement walls and discovered that the walls were bowed inward and cracked. Marta then had a civil engineer inspect the basement walls, and he found that the cracks had been caulked and painted over before the paneling was installed. He concluded that the "wall failure" had existed "for at least thirty years" and that the basement walls were "structurally unsound." Using the information presented in the chapter, answer the following questions.
1. Can Marta avoid the contract on the ground that both parties made a mistake about the condition of the house? Explain. 2. Can Marta sue Chelene for fraudulent misrepresentation? Why or why not? What element (or elements) might be lacking?. 3. Now assume that Chelene knew that the basement walls were cracked and bowed and that she hired someone to install paneling before offering to sell the house. Did she have a duty to disclose this defect to Marta? Could a court find that Chelene's silence in this situation constituted misrepresentation? Explain.

Is cost minimization equivalent or identical the concept of product maximization. True of False. Explain

To determine how students at a particular college feel about cigarette smoking in public places, all students in the college who chose to have their email address published in the college directory were sent an email with a link to an online survey. What is wrong with this sampling method?

A. Nothing, since students could go online to give their opinion.
B. Only smokers should have been surveyed.
C. They should have only sent the email to every 5th student in the directory.
D. The sampling method would result in a sample size that is too large.
E. Not all students would have an email listed in the student directory.

The purpose of environmental forecasting is to ______. Multiple choice question. collect and interpret data on competitors follow trends in a firm's external environment monitor the external environment predict change

For each of the following transactions that occur in their lives, identify whether it is included in the calculation of U.S. GDP as part of consumption (C), investment (I), government purchases (G), exports (X), or imports (M). Check all that apply.Transaction C |I |G| X |M|The Federal Aviation Administration expands the runways at Philadelphia International Airport, which is just a few miles from Antonio and Caroline's house.Dmitri buys a new set of tools to use in his plumbing business.Caroline buys a new BMW, which was assembled in Germany.Antonio's employer assigns him to provide consulting services to an Australian firm that's opening a manufacturing facility in China.Caroline gets a haircut.

Telecomp is a U.S.-based manufacturer of cellular telephones. It is planning to build a new manufacturing and distribution facility in either South Korea, China, Taiwan, Poland, or Mexico. The cost of the facility will differ between countries and will even vary within countries depending on the economic and political climate, including monetary exchange rates. The company has estimated the facility cost (in $ millions) in each country under three different future economic/political climates as follows.Economic/Political Climate Country Decline Same Improve South Korea 21.7 19.1 15.2 China 19.0 18.5 17.6 Taiwan 19.2 17.1 14.9 Poland 22.5 16.8 13.8 Mexico 25.0 21.2 12.5 Determine the best decision using the following decision criteria. (Note that since the payoff is cost, the maximax criteria becomes minimax and maximin becomes minimax.)
a. Maximin
b. Minimax
c. Hurwicz ( 0.40)
d. Equal likelihood

Bill and Ted are deciding what musical instruments they want to learn pick between the guitar, keyboard, and the drums to play for their band. They can They both want to have a good band, but also each has a preference over what to play. Both like the guitar over all else. However, Bill likes the keyboard more than the drums and Ted likes the drums more than the keyboard. What is crucial is that each chooses a different instrument, otherwise the band is pretty terrible. The actual combination does not affect the quality of the band. One night, Bill and Ted simultaneously reveal to each other what instrument they have bought and learned to play. Since they bought AND learned to play the instru- are committed to it! Given the information above, answer the following: ment they
1. Does either Bill or Ted have a dominant/dominated strategy? Explain
2. If Bill picks the keyboard, is it a best response for Ted to pick the drums? Explain
3. If Ted picks the guitar, is it a best response for Bill to pick the keyboard? Explain
4. Can there exist a Nash equilibrium in which Bill picks the drums and Ted picks the keyboard? Explain
5. Can there exist a Nash Equlibrium in which Bill picks the guitar and Ted picks the drums? Explain

Listed below in scrambled order are 11 income statement categories. Rank these categories below in the order they should appear on a multiple-step income statement.


( ) Discontinued operations.
( ) Cost of goods sold.
( ) Other revenues and gains/Other expenses and losses.
( ) Net income.
( ) Income taxes.
( ) Sales revenue.
( ) Gross profit on sales.
( ) Income from operations.
( ) Income from continuing operations before income taxes.
( ) Operating expenses.
( ) Income from continuing operations.

4. you follow the advice of your friend to be flexible especially
if you intend to open a retail business what PECS do
you
demonstrate?​

Use the following information to answer question. Madelyn owns a small pottery factory. She can make 1,000 pieces of pottery per year and sell them for $100 each. It costs Madelyn $20,000 for the raw materials to produce the 1,000 pieces of pottery. She has invested $100,000 in her factory and equipment: $50,000 from her savings and $50,000 borrowed at 10 percent (assume that she could have loaned her money out at 10 percent, too). Madelyn can work at a competing pottery factory for $40,000 per year.

The accounting profit at Madelyn's pottery factory is:______

a. $35,000.
b. $75,000.
c. $30,000.
d. $70,000.
e. $80,000.

Materials and manufacturing labor variances, standard costsDunn, Inc., is a privately held furniture manufacturer. For August 2014, Dunn had the following standards for one of its products, a wicker chair:The following data were compiled regarding actual performance: actual output units (chairs) produced, 2,000; square yards of input purchased and used, 3,700; price per square yard, $5.10; direct manufacturing labor costs, $8,820; actual hours of input, 900; labor price per hour, $9.80.Required:1. Show computations of price and efficiency variances for direct materials and direct manufacturing labor. Give a plausible explanation of why each variance occurred.2. Suppose 6,000 square yards of materials were purchased (at $5.10 per square yard), even though only 3,700 square yards were used. Suppose further that variances are identified at their most timely control point; accordingly, direct materials price variances are isolated and traced at the time of purchase to the purchasing department rather than to the production department. Compute the price and efficiency variances under this approach.

Obtain estimates of daily relatives for the number of customers at a restaurant for the evening meal, given the following data.
Day Number Served Day Number Served
1 80 15 84
2 75 16 78
3 78 17 83
4 95 18 96
5 130 19 135
6 136 20 140
7 40 21 44
8 82 22 87
9 77 23 82
10 80 24 88
11 94 25 99
12 131 26 144
13 137 27 144
14 42 28 48
a. Use the centered moving average method. (Hint: Use a seven-day moving average.) (Round your intermediate calculations and final answers to 4 decimal places.) X⎯⎯⎯ 1's 2's 3's 4's 5's 6's 7's
b. Use the SA method. (Round your intermediate calculations to 3 decimals and final answers to 4 decimals.) SA Index 1's 2's 3's 4's 5's 6's 7's

PinaCompany is preparing its master budget for 2017. Relevant data pertaining to its sales, production, and direct materials budgets are as follows.

Sales: Sales for the year are expected to total 1,200,000 units. Quarterly sales are 20%, 25%, 26%, and 29%, respectively. The sales price is expected to be $40 per unit for the first three quarters and $43 per unit beginning in the fourth quarter. Sales in the first quarter of 2018 are expected to be 15% higher than the budgeted sales for the first quarter of 2017.

Production: Management desires to maintain the ending finished goods inventories at 25% of the next quarter’s budgeted sales volume.

Direct materials: Each unit requires 2 pounds of raw materials at a cost of $10 per pound. Management desires to maintain raw materials inventories at 10% of the next quarter’s production requirements. Assume the production requirements for first quarter of 2018 are 510,000 pounds.

Required:
Prepare the sales, production, and direct materials budgets by quarters for 2017.

there is no important​

Lovely Lotion Inc. produces three different lotions: hand, body, and foot. The lotions are produced jointly in a mixing process that costs a total of $250 per batch. At the split-off point, one batch produces 80, 40, and 25 bottles of hand, body, and foot lotion, respectively. After the split-off point, hand lotion is sold immediately for $2.50 per bottle. Body lotion is processed further at an additional cost of $0.25 per bottle and then sold for $5.75 per bottle. Foot lotion is processed further at an additional cost of $0.85 per bottle and then sold for $4.00 per bottle. Assume that body and foot lotion could be sold at the split-off point for $3.00 and $3.20 per bottle, respectively.
1. Using the market value at split-off method, allocate the joint costs of production to each product.
2. A lotion manufacturing company produces three types of lotions. After the split-off point the company continues to sell the body lotion and makes $0.25 profit per bottle. The foot lotion generates $0.05 loss per bottle. Which lotion should be continued after the split-off point?
A. Hand lotion.
B. Body lotion.
C. Foot lotion.
D. Body and foot lotion.
3. Allocate the joint costs of production to each product using the net realizable value method.

Green Cabinets is a custom cabinet builder. They recently completed a set of kitchen cabinets (Job Number 1478), as summarized below Job Number:1478 Date Started: 4/07/20x8 Date Completed: 4/22/20x8 Description: Cherry kitchen cabinets Applied Manufacturing Overhead Hours Direct Materials Direct Labor Req No Ticket 128 Amount Hours Amount Rate Amount $375 235 385 18 414 130 588 391 25 395 140 133 9 243 401 215 52 Total 965 Total $1,244 Cost Summary Direct Material Cost 965 Direct Labor Cost 1,244 Applied Manufacturing Overhead Total Cost Green Cabinets applies overhead to jobs at a rate of $12 per direct labor hour.
(a) How much overhead would be applied to Job Number 1478 Applied Manufacturing Overhead
(b) What is the total cost of Job Number 1478?

Record the following transactions related to purchases for Horston’s Art Supplies using the general journal form provided below. Assume Horston’s uses a periodic inventory system. Omit transaction descriptions from entries.
Date Transaction
Sept. 1 Purchased $8,000 of merchandise on account, FOB destination, n/30.
3 Returned $1,000 of merchandise purchased on September 1 due to defects.
7 Purchased $1,500 of merchandise on account, terms FOB shipping point, 2/10, n/30.
Prepaid freight of $75 was added to the invoice.
14 Paid for the merchandise purchased on September 7, less discount.
20 Paid for merchandise purchased on September 1, less return.

Assume that in the short run a firm is producing 500 units of output, has average total costs of $300, and has average variable costs of $220. The firm's total fixed costs are. Select one: a. $40,000. b. $6.25. c. $0.16. d. $80.

MullerB Company’s employees earn vacation time at the rate of 1 hour per 40-hour work period. The vacation pay vests immediately, meaning an employee is entitled to the pay even if employment terminates. During 2018, total wages paid to employees equaled $909,000, including $9,000 for vacations actually taken in 2018, but not including vacations related to 2018 that will be taken in 2019. All vacations earned before 2018 were taken before January 1, 2018. No accrual entries have been made for the vacations.

Required:
Prepare the appropriate adjusting entry for vacations earned but not taken in 2018.

Assume the perpetual inventory system is used. Determine the costs assigned to ending inventory when costs are assigned based on the weighted average method. (Round your per unit costs to 2 decimal places.)