The children's department of a major department store had $615,000 in merchandise at the beginning of the year During the year, $836,000 purchases were made. Assuming the yearend inventory was $573,200, what is the cost of goods sold? What was the total amount of merchandise available for sale?According to the results, compare and contrast the cost elements associated with a retailer (or service-based business) and a manufacturer? What additional product costs must be recognized within a manufacturer? What additional factors must be recognized by a company that uses a JIT inventory system?

Owns a machine that can produce two specialized products. production time for product tlx is two units per hour and for product mtv is four units per hour. the machine’s capacity is 2,100 hours per year. both products are sold to a single customer who has agreed to buy all of the company’s output up to a maximum of 3,570 units of product tlx and 1,610 units of product mtv. selling prices and variable costs per unit to produce the products follow. product tlx product mtv selling price per unit $ 11.50 $ 6.90 variable costs per unit 3.45 4.14 determine the company's most profitable sales mix and the contribution margin that results from that sales mix.