In 2010, a country imported goods worth $500 billion and exported goods worth $443 billion. It exported services worth $248 billion and imported services worth $330 billion. Payments on investments abroad totaled $199 billion, while returns paid on foreign investments were $125 billion. Unilateral transfers from the country to other nations amounted to $94 billion. What was the country’s current account deficit for 2010?
A. $70 billion
B. $159 billion
C. $142 billion
D. $65 billion
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1.The finished goods beginning inventory = $100,000; The finished goods ending inventory = $50,000; The work in process inventory at the beginning of the year was $150,000 and at the end of the year $50,000; The raw materials inventory at the beginning of the year $80,000 and at the end of the year was $40,000.
Manufacturing costs and selling and administrative expenses were as follows: indirect materials = $10,000; factory utilities = $20,000; raw material purchases = $30,000 in June and $40,000 in May; direct labor cost related to wages of factory employees = $80,000; indirect labor = $20,000; factory supervision = $10,000; other factory costs = $10,000; selling expenses = $20,000; depreciation factory machinery = $40,000 and depreciation of office equipment = $50,000; sales commissions = $20,000; office supplies = $10,000; factory supplies = $20,000; marketing expenses = $60,000; and deprecation of office building = $50,000; the company closed its year end with sales revenue of $1,000,000.
Required: Prepare schedules for direct materials, direct labor, factory overhead, total manufacturing costs and cost of goods sold.
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Calculation of Cost of Goods Sold: Periodic Inventory System Prepare the cost of goods sold section for Adams Gift Shop. The following amounts are known: Beginning merchandise inventory $27,050 Ending merchandise inventory 22,550 Purchases 77,125 Purchases returns and allowances 4,055 Purchases discounts 5,745 Freight-in 230 Adams Gift Shop Cost of Goods Sold Cost of goods sold: $ $ $ $ $ Cost of goods sold $
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Assume that a country produces two goods, agriculture (which requires land and labor) and manufactured goods (which requires labor and capital), and is currently in autarky equilibrium. The country just finds that the international price ratio of agriculture relative to manufactured goods, i.e., PA/PM, in the world market is LOWER than the price ratio in its domestic market.
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. Explain the following:
a) Using a production possibilities schedule and assuming consumer goods and capital goods, explain how your positions on the curve can determine your location of the economic growth in the future. Use diagrams.
b) Why do we have increasing opportunity cost in real world and what does it mean in terms of the shape of the production possibilities curve? Carefully explain.
c) How does a production possibilities schedule show scarcity choice and opportunity cost? Using a diagram, carefully explain.
2. Explain the following:
a) Using diagrams and supply and demand concept, carefully explain the impact of each of the following on equilibrium price and quantity of certain products.
i) Simultaneous decrease in price of raw material and decrease in income for a normal good (other things being equal).
ii) Simultaneous increase in business taxes and an increase in consumer income for a normal good (other things being equal).
b) Graphically explain price floor and price ceiling. Do these meddle with rationing function of prices? Carefully explain.
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Part 2
Below is a production possibilities table for consumer goods (butter) and capital goods (guns).
|
Production Possibilities |
|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Type of Production |
Production Alternative A |
Production Alternative B |
Production Alternative C |
Production Alternative D |
Production Alternative E |
Production Alternative F |
Production Alternative G |
|
Butter |
0 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
|
Guns |
14 |
13 |
11 |
9 |
7 |
4 |
0 |
Graph the data provided in the table using Excel. (Hints: Type your data into an Excel spreadsheet. With your mouse, highlight the data only. Go to insert. Click on scatter. Click on smooth lines chart. Select the line chart. Plot data drawing line.)
Based on the graph you created, determine if allocating advertising expenditures to boost sales or investing in a new plant and equipment would entail the greater opportunity cost. Explain and support your response.
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Part 1 Below is a production possibilities table for consumer goods (butter) and capital goods (guns).
|
Production Possibilities |
|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Type of Production |
Production Alternative A |
Production Alternative B |
Production Alternative C |
Production Alternative D |
Production Alternative E |
Production Alternative F |
Production Alternative G |
|
Butter |
0 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
|
Guns |
14 |
13 |
11 |
9 |
7 |
4 |
0 |
Graph the data provided in the table using Excel. (Hints: Type your data into an Excel spreadsheet. With your mouse, highlight the data only. Go to insert. Click on scatter. Click on smooth lines chart. Select the line chart. Plot data drawing line.)
Based on the graph you created, complete the following:
Identify the specific assumptions that underlie the production possibilities curve.
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2. Typically, goods that are in high demand have a high market price. However, some goods that are in high demand during their peak season have lower prices as compared to their out-of-season price. Use your knowledge of supply & demand to explain the lower equilibrium price of cherries sold in the summer (their peak season), as compared to their price during the rest of the year (say, in the winter). Show it graphically and briefly explain. (3 pts.)
Hint: You should draw two demand and two supply curves in the same graph (for winter and summer). Start with the winter to show your initial demand and initial supply of cherries. Then, show the changes that occur in the summer months and prove that the price of cherries in the summer is lower than in the winter.
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Cost of Goods Sold, Cost of Goods Manufactured
Glenville Company has the following information for April:
| Cost of direct materials used in production | $54,000 | |
| Direct labor | 66,000 | |
| Factory overhead | 20,000 | |
| Work in process inventory, April 1 | 45,000 | |
| Work in process inventory, April 30 | 50,000 | |
| Finished goods inventory, April 1 | 25,000 | |
| Finished goods inventory, April 30 | 17,000 |
a. For April, determine the cost of goods manufactured.
Using the data given, prepare a statement of Cost of Goods Manufactured.
| Glenville Company | ||
| Statement of Cost of Goods Manufactured | ||
| Work in process inventory, April 1 | $ | |
| Cost of direct materials used in production | $ | |
| Direct labor | ||
| Factory overhead | ||
| Total manufacturing costs incurred in April | ||
| Total manufacturing costs | $ | |
| Work in process inventory, April 30 | ||
| Cost of goods manufactured | $ | |
b. For April, determine the cost of goods sold.
Using the data given, prepare a statement of Cost of Goods Sold.
| Glenville Company | |
| Statement of Cost of Goods Sold | |
| Finished goods inventory, April 1 | $ |
| Cost of goods manufactured | |
| Cost of finished goods available for sale | $ |
| Finished goods inventory, April 30 | |
| Cost of goods sold | $ |
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