Unland company uses a periodic inventory system. details for the inventory account for the month of january 2017 are as follows:
units per unit price total
balance, 1/1/2017 290 $5.00 $1450
purchase, 1/15/2017 140 ..5.10 714
purchase, 1/28/2017 140 ..5.30 742
an end of the month (1/31/2017) inventory showed that 230 units were on hand. if the company uses lifo, what is the value of the ending inventory?

You own a nonunion company with 93 nonexempt employees. all of these employ- ees pack books into boxes for shipment to customers throughout the united states. because of wide differences in performance, you have decided to try performance appraisal, something never done before. until now, you have given every worker the same size increase. now you want to measure performance and reward the best performers with bigger increases. without any further information, which of the five types of appraisal formats do you think would be most appropriate? justify your answer. do you anticipate any complaints, or other comments, from employees after you implement your new system?