On august 18, a fire destroyed the office, lumber shed, and a considerable portion of the lumber stacked in the yard. to file a report of loss for insurance purposes, the company must know what the inventories were immediately preceding the fire. no detail or perpetual inventory records of any kind were maintained. the only pertinent information you are able to obtain are the following facts from the general ledger, which was kept in a fireproof vault and thus escaped destruction.
lumber
millwork
hardware
inventory, jan. 1, 2014 $265,900 $93,470 $45,600
purchases to aug. 18, 2014 1,544,900 375,100 160,300
sales to aug. 18, 2014 2,064,500 538,590 261,240

submit your estimate of the inventory amounts immediately preceding the fire.

inventory $

lumber $

millwork $

hardware $

Ajustification for job training programs is that they improve worker productivity. suppose that you are asked to evaluate whether more job training makes workers more productive. however, rather than having data on individual workers, you have access to data on manufacturing firms in ohio. in particu- lar, for each firm, you have information on hours of job training per worker (training) and number of nondefective items produced per worker hour (output). (i) carefully state the ceteris paribus thought experiment underlying this policy question. (ii) does it seem likely that a firm’s decision to train its workers will be independent of worker characteristics? what are some of those measurable and unmeasurable worker characteristics? (iii) name a factor other than worker characteristics that can affect worker productivity. (iv) if you find a positive correlation between output and training, would you have convincingly established that job training makes workers more productive? explain.

Issued to the joint planning and execution community (jpec) initiates the development of coas; it also requests that the supported ccdr submit a commander's estimate of the situation with a recommended coa to resolve the situation (joint force command and staff participation in the joint operation planning and execution system, page 10)

Your own record of all your transactions. a. check register b. account statement