Suppose an American business owner purchases chocolates from Belgium in order to sell them in her shops. This would be entered as a ____________ item under the ___________________ section of the U.S. current account. Consider the goods and services balance. According to the table, the United States is running a trade ____________ .
The current account balance suggests that U.S. current account transactions (exports and imports of goods and services, as well as inflow and outflow of investment income and transfers) created outpayments of foreign currencies from the United States that were __________________the inpayments of foreign currencies to the United States.

Any surplus or deficit in one account must be offset by deficits or surpluses in other balance-of-payments accounts. Because the current account is in ____________ , the excess of foreign currency held by Americans must either be loaned to foreigners or used to buy foreign stocks or bonds. All of these transactions are then recorded in the _______________account. Since any imbalance in one account automatically leads to an equal, but opposite, imbalance in the other, the balance of payments is always _____________

Answer:

Debit

U.S. merchandise imports

Surplus

equal to

Surplus

current

zero

Explanation:

The trade deficit or surplus is based on the exports and imports of the country. When the imports are higher than exports then there will be trade deficit in the current account. In the given scenario the case is other way round, here imports are less than exports which suggests that there is a trade surplus which is offset by other accounts and balance of payment turn out to be zero.

Softwind Manufacturing anticipates annual sales of 40,000 units and has the following information regarding one of its products: Annual unit sales 40,000 Fixed manufacturing costs $ 22 Variable manufacturing costs 44 Variable selling and administrative costs 16 Fixed selling and administrative costs 8 Desired profit per unit 18 If Softwind uses cost-plus pricing based on absorption manufacturing cost, what is the sales price Softwind will charge for this product

Following a systematic plan for the preparation of an e-mail, memo, letter, or oral presentation will make the composition process easier and will help you create more effective business messages. The writing process for business messages includes prewriting, drafting, and revising. Which of the following are steps involved in the prewriting phase of the writing process? Check all that apply. Analyzing Drafting Anticipating Researching Adapting Editing

It costs Bonita Industries $12 of variable and $5 of fixed costs to produce one bathroom scale which normally sells for $35. A foreign wholesaler offers to purchase 3100 scales at $15 each. Garner would incur special shipping costs of $1 per scale if the order were accepted. Bonita has sufficient unused capacity to produce the 3100 scales. If the special order is accepted, what will be the effect on net income?
a. $46500 increase.
b. $6200 increase.
c. $6200 decrease.
d. $9300 decrease.

Carlos transfers property with a tax basis of $750 and a fair market value of $1,200 to a corporation in exchange for stock with a fair market value of $975 and $75 cash in a transaction that qualifies for deferral under section 351. The corporation assumed a liability of $150 on the property transferred. What is the corporation's tax basis in the property received in the exchange

The following information is available for Conger Company for the month of January: expected cash receipts $59,000; expected cash disbursements $67,000; and cash balance on January 1, $12,000. Management wishes to maintain a minimum cash balance of $9,000.
Prepare a basic cash budget for the month of January.

If you travel a lot for work and use cash to pay for most purchases, which type of financial institution would you probably have your
account at?
O credit union
O national or regional bank

Blossom Company had the following transactions. 1. Sold land (cost $8,400) for $10,500. 2. Issued common stock at par for $22,200. 3. Recorded depreciation on buildings for $12,200. 4. Paid salaries of $7,400. 5. Issued 1,000 shares of $1 par value common stock for equipment worth $8,100. 6. Sold equipment (cost $13,800, accumulated depreciation $9,660) for $1,656. (a) For each transaction above, prepare the journal entry.

UPS, a delivery services company, has a beta of 1.4, and Wal-Mart has a beta of 0.8. The risk-free rate of interest is 4% and the market risk premium (rM-rRF) is 6%. What is the expected return on a portfolio with 40% of its money in UPS and the balance in Wal-Mart?

Use T-accounts to record the transactions below, which occur on March 12, 2020, close the T-accounts, and construct a balance sheet to answer the question. 1. Purchase equipment for $50,000 in cash 2. Borrow $67,000 from a bank 3. Issue $80,000 in stock 4. Buy $16,000 worth of manufacturing supplies on credit 5. Pay $7,000 owed to a supplier What is the final amount in Total Equity?

Treasury Stock Coastal Corporation issued 25,000 shares of $9 par value common stock at $21 per share and 6,000 shares of $54 par value, eight percent preferred stock at $82 per share. Later, the company purchased 3,000 shares of its own common stock at $24 per share. a. Prepare the journal entries to record the share issuances and the purchase of the common shares. b. Assume that Coastal sold 2,000 shares of the treasury stock at $30 per share. Prepare the general journal entry to record the sale of this treasury stock. c. Assume that Coastal sold the remaining 1,000 shares of treasury stock at $19 per share. Prepare the journal entry to record the sale of this treasury stock.

5 years ago, Barton Industries issued 25-year noncallable, semiannual bonds with a $1,000 face value and a 9% coupon, semiannual payment ($45 payment every 6 months). The bonds currently sell for $896.87. If the firm's marginal tax rate is 25%, what is the firm's after-tax cost of debt? Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to two decimal places.

A company decides to let go of some employees due to a financial crisis. Irena loses her job, while her colleagues with similar performance ratings and productivity retain their jobs. Irena's judgment of her loss when compared to her colleagues' is a perception of

A customer’s specification for weight of an antiseptic cream sold in plastic tubes is 4.00 ounces ± 0.02 ounces. The target process capability ratio is 1.00. At Brooklyn Pharmaceuticals, the current distribution of the filling process is centered on 4.005 ounces with a standard deviation of 0.004 ounces. Compute Cp and Cpk and report whether the filling process is capable of delivering to customer specifications?

Customer Specification 3.98
Process Average 4.005
Process Standard Deviation 0.004

As 2017, Buttle Corp. has $10 par, 2% preferred stock, 6,500 shares outstanding, and $1 par common stock with 32,000 shares outstanding. The preferred stock is cumulative and preferred stockholders last received a dividend in 2014. If the company wants to distribute $4 per share to the common stockholders in 2017, what is the total amount of dividends that the company must pay at the end of the current year

Activity-Based Product Costing
Sweet Sugar Company manufactures three products (white sugar, brown sugar, and powdered sugar) in a continuous production process. Senior management has asked the controller to conduct an activity-based costing study. The controller identified the amount of factory overhead required by the critical activities of the organization as follows:
Activity Budgeted Activity Cost
Production $471,200
Setup 310,800
Inspection 81,000
Shipping 156,000
Customer service 65,500
Total $1,084,500
The activity bases identified for each activity are as follows:
Activity Activity Base
Production Machine hours
Setup Number of setups
Inspection Number of inspections
Shipping Number of customer orders
Customer service Number of customer service requests
The activity-base usage quantities and units produced for the three products were determined from corporate records and are as follows:
Machine Hours Number of
Setups Number of
Inspections Number of
Customer Orders Customer
Service
Requests Units
White sugar 3,340 180 200 780 50 8,350
Brown sugar 2,130 270 300 2,150 320 5,325
Powdered sugar 2,130 250 500 970 130 5,325
Total 7,600 700 1,000 3,900 500 19,000
Each product requires 0.9 machine hour per unit.
Required:
If required, round all per unit amounts to the nearest cent.
1. Determine the activity rate for each activity.
Production $ per machine hour
Setup $ per setup
Inspection $ per move
Shipping $ per cust. ord.
Customer service $ per customer service request
2. Determine the total and per-unit activity cost for all three products.
Total Activity Cost Activity Cost Per Unit
White sugar $ $
Brown sugar
Powdered sugar
3. Why aren’t the activity unit costs equal across all three products since they require the same machine time per unit?
The unit costs are different because the products consume many activities in ratios different from the .

A product sells for $210 per unit, and its variable costs per unit are $130. The fixed costs are $420,000. If the firm wants to earn $35,000 after tax income (assume a 30% tax rate), how many units must be sold

how can an injection benefit the South African economy​

Alexa and David are managers of different sales teams. Together, they decide to have a competition between teams to see who can bring in the most new clients this month. To increase the sense of competition, they create spirit days where they wear team colors (Alexa's team: blue, David's black), strategize ways to beat the other group, and keep a running total of who is winning on a white board. Alexa and David are employing______to increase productivity.
A. Social identity theory.
B. Parasocial interaction theory.
C. Leader-member exchange theory.
D. Vigilant interaction theory.
E. Expectancy theory.

In 3 sentences. Why are open-ended questions helpful when landing a sale? (this is for customer service)

Indicate whether each of the following costs of an airplane manufacturer would be classified as direct materials cost, direct labor cost, or factory overhead cost: Cost Classification a. Aircraft engines b. Controls for flight deck c. Depreciation of welding equipment d. Landing gear e. Machine lubricants f. Salary of plant superintendent g. Tires h. Wages of assembly line worker

what's an opportunity cost?

Rankine Company estimates its bad debts expense by aging its accounts receivable and applying percentages to various age groups of the accounts. Rankine calculated a total of $9,600 in possible credit losses as of December 31. Accounts Receivable has a balance of $307,200, and the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts has a credit balance of $1,200 before adjustment at December 31

Required:
What is the net amount of accounts receivable that should be included in current assets?

Decision Case F:2-1 Your friend, Dean McChesney, requested that you advise him on the effects that certain transactions will have on his business, A-Plus Travel Planners. Time is short, so you cannot journalize the transactions. Instead, you must analyze the transactions without a journal. McChesney will continue the business only if he can expect to earn a monthly net income of $6,000. The business completed the following transactions during June:
A. McChesney deposited $10,000 cash in a business bank account to start the compan The company issued common stock to McChesney.
B. Paid $300 cash for office supplies.
C. Incurred advertising expense on account, $700.
D. Paid the following cash expenses: administrative assistant's salary, $1,400: office tent, $1,000.
E. Earned service revenue on account, $8,800.
F. Collected cash from customers on account, $1,200.

Limited partnership is best suited to rising large amount of capital.
True or false?

Explain how art sellers use the 4 P's of marketing to promote expensive art to the desired patrons. Then, consider: Do you think it makes sense to view art as a product and promote it using the marketing mix? How is it similar to other products? On the other hand, what makes art different or "special" in comparison to the products we usually buy in a store?

The fictional global firm of Knickerbockers Socks established itself in the international trade industry ten years ago and has been an active participant with intra-industry trade in developed countries. Because of the way Knickerbockers operates, it can take advantage of economies of scale. What do economies of scale make possible for its sock customers

Oakwood Financial Inc. was organized on February 28. Projected selling and administrative expenses for each of the first three months of operations are as follows:
March $132,700
April 124,700
May 113,500
Depreciation, insurance, and property taxes represent $28,000 of the estimated monthly expenses. The annual insurance premium was paid on February 28, and property taxes for the year will be paid in June. 73% of the remainder of the expenses are expected to be paid in the month in which they are incurred, with the balance to be paid in the following month.
Prepare a schedule indicating cash payments for selling and administrative expenses for March, April, and May.

Labor unions are organizations of employees formed to protect and advance their members' interests by bargaining with management over job-related issues.

a. True
b. False

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Abeis typically scheduled to operate 3machines at his workstation for 10 hours per day, 4 days per week. During every 10 hours of scheduled work, Abetakes 75minutesof break.Hemust perform 30minutes of maintenance on each machine (separately) during every 10 hours of scheduled work. Abeis unableprocess work while heis performing maintenance.1.What is theworkstation utilization