Granfield company has a piece of manufacturing equipment with a book value of $36,000 and a remaining useful life of four years. at the end of the four years the equipment will have a zero salvage value. the market value of the equipment is currently $21,200. granfield can purchase a new machine for $112,000 and receive $21,200 in return for trading in its old machine. the new machine will reduce variable manufacturing costs by $18,200 per year over the four-year life of the new machine. the total increase or decrease in net income by replacing the current machine with the new machine (ignoring the time value of money) is

Suppose that the u.s. dollars-mexican pesos exchange rate is fixed by the u.s. and mexican governments. assume also that labor is mobile between the united states and mexico due to low transportation costs.which of the following situations is likely to happen as a result of a simultaneous increase in the demand for u.s. goods and decrease in the demand for mexican goods? (pick mexican unemployment rate increases, and the country undergoes bad economic times for a sustained u.s. unemployment rate increases, and the country undergoes bad economic times for a sustained mexican unemployment rate rises at first, but it soon drops as unemployed mexicans move to the united states for mexican unemployment rate rises at first, but then it drops as mexican pesos depreciate against u.s. dollars.