Atlas enterprises inc. manufactures elliptical exercise machines and treadmills. the products are produced in its fabrication and assembly production departments. in addition to production activities, several other activities are required to produce the two products. these activities and their associated activity rates are as follows: activity activity rate fabrication $22 per machine hour assembly $13 per direct labor hour setup $52 per setup inspecting $21 per inspection production scheduling $14 per production order purchasing $11 per purchase order the activity-base usage quantities and units produced for each product were as follows: activity base elliptical machines treadmill machine hours 1,947 1,149 direct labor hours 391 152 setups 52 16 inspections 640 384 production orders 65 13 purchase orders 193 118 units produced 252 169 use the activity rate and usage information to calculate the total activity cost and activity cost per unit for each product. if required, round the per unit answers to the nearest cent.

Fred smithers, a recent college graduate decided to open his own portable juice bar, smithers smoothies, to wheel around newport beach. you, a trusted friend of fred, are a business major that has also recently graduated and agreed to handle the books for a while to get some practical experience and have a favor that you can ask of fred in the future. given the following five transactions concerning the new venture, prepare the necessary journal entries for the transactions, post the journal entries to appropriate t accounts and prepare a trial balance as of the end of the month in order to answer to the necessary may 2: fred invests $12,000 of his own money to start the new company. this money was obtained from a part-time job working at a legal firm while he was in school. may 3: fred spent $5,100 cash to purchase a refrigerated trailer that he can pull behind his car and set up at the beach. under your advice, fred agrees to place the new asset under an account called "equipment." may 6: fred bought $640 of supplies on account from the flav-o-rite confectioners company. because they will last longer than a single accounting period fred agrees to record them as, "supplies" as per your suggestion. may 13: fred sat on the beach for six hours without a single sale and was feeling very down. right before he left, however, a plumber escorting his family reunion along the beach stopped by his stand and bought $800 worth of smoothies for the entire family. under your advice, fred agrees to call this cash revenue, "sales." may 15: excited about his new venture, fred withdraws $350 from the company to take his girlfriend out to dinner. what would be the balance in the cash account at the end of the period following the posting of all the transactions?

What do you think: would it be more profitable to own 200 shares of penny’s pickles or 1 share of exxon? why do you think that?

Acompetitive market in healthcare would a. overprovide healthcare because the marginal social benefit of healthcare exceeds the marginal benefit perceived by consumers b. underprovide healthcare because it would eliminate medicare and medicaid c. underprovide healthcare because the marginal social benefit of healthcare exceeds the marginal benefit perceived by consumers d. overprovide healthcare because it would be similar to the approach used in canada