Lossing Corporation applies manufacturing overhead to products on the basis of standard machine-hours. Budgeted and actual overh
ead costs for the most recent month appear below: Original Budget Actual Costs Variable overhead costs: Supplies $ 8,300 $ 8,490 Indirect labor 10,770 10,120 Fixed overhead costs: Supervision 16,110 14,540 Utilities 15,400 15,450 Factory depreciation 58,130 59,650 Total overhead cost $ 108,710 $ 108,250 The company based its original budget on 8,300 machine-hours. The company actually worked 8,260 machine-hours during the month. The standard hours allowed for the actual output of the month totaled 8,190 machine-hours. What was the overall fixed manufacturing overhead volume variance for the month?
If by 2030 China became, as current data estimates, the world's largest economy, this would mean a series of global changes in macroeconomic matters: A) for the world trade system, China would become the main exporter given its huge population (estimated at 1.6 billion people) added to its economic capacity, which would flood the world markets with manufactured products in this country, increasing the fiscal surplus and employment for its inhabitants; furthermore, it would relegate many nations to being secondary producers; B) the monetary system would watch the emergence of the Renmimbi as a new reference currency, displacing the dollar and the euro from the center of the scene; C) Commodity prices would be determined according to the consumption and production needs of China, with which the products demanded in this country will have high value.
