If a company has advance subscription sales totaling $45,000 for the upcoming year, when four quarterly journals will mailed to customers, the receipt of cash would be journalized as: A. Debit Cash $45,000, credit Accounts Payable $45,000.
B. Debit Unearned Revenue $45,000; credit Sales $45,000.
C. Debit Sales $45,000, credit Unearned Revenue $45,000.
D. Debit Prepaid Subscriptions $45,000, credit Sales $45,000.
E. Debit Cash $45,000; credit Unearned Revenue $45,000.

In north korea, a farmer’s income is the same as a dentist’s income. in a country with a mixed or market economy, the difference between those two professions might be more than 5 times different. how can you explain the fact that individuals doing the same work in different countries do not earn comparable salaries?

Suppose that alexi and tony can sell all their street tacos for $2 each and all their cuban sandwiches for $7.25 each. if each of them worked 20 hours per week, how should they split their time between the production of street tacos and cuban sandwiches? what is their maximum joint revenue?

Activity-based costing (abc) is not truly a cost collection mechanism as much as it is an inventory valuation method. the main purpose for implementing an activity-based cost system is to try to overcome some of the cost distortions that occur in traditional costing from product differences when there are variations in size and complexity. however, one of the disadvantages of utilizing abc is that the additional information gathering necessary to implement costing with that level of detail might be beyond the reach of some companies with resource or financial constraints. with this in mind, what kinds of industries or companies do you think would benefit most from using activity-based costing and why? in designing or modifying an accounting system to capture appropriate costs for abc, what considerations do you think would need to be made?