Wang corporation follows generally accepted accounting principles in accounting for uncollectibles. wang received notification from a bankruptcy court that its customer, timber creek, had been adjudicated and released from all claims presently pending against it by wang corporation. frank wang, owner of wang corporation, was not at all with this decision. frank had anticipated recovering at least $50,000 from timber creek, and that balance remained in the accounts receivable accounts of wang corporation. because wang corporation has no further remedies for collection, frank directed the accounting department to prepare a journal entry to write off the account of timber creek.

Suppose that: 1. malaysia requires 1 hour of labor to produce 1 pound of rice and 2 hours of labor to produce 1 pencil; 2. indonesia requires 2 hours of labor to produce 1 pound of rice and 4 hours of labor to produce 1 pencil; 3. each country has 10,000 hours of labor to allocate between the production of rice and pencils; and 4. in autarky, malaysia consumes 5,000 pounds of rice and 2,500 pencils. which country has an absolute advantage in rice production? in pencil production? which country has a comparative advantage in rice production? in pencil production? will trade between the two countries be mutually beneficial?

The monthly demand equation for an electric utility company is estimated to be p equals 60 minus left parenthesis 10 superscript negative 5 baseline right parenthesis x, where p is measured in dollars and x is measured in thousands of killowatt-hours. the utility has fixed costs of $3 comma 000 comma 000 per month and variable costs of $32 per 1000 kilowatt-hours of electricity generated, so the cost function is upper c left parenthesis x right parenthesis equals 3 times 10 superscript 6 baseline plus 32 x. (a) find the value of x and the corresponding price for 1000 kilowatt-hours that maximize the utility's profit. (b) suppose that the rising fuel costs increase the utility's variable costs from $32 to $38, so its new cost function is upper c 1 left parenthesis x right parenthesis equals 3 times 10 superscript 6 baseline plus 38 x. should the utility pass all this increase of $6 per thousand kilowatt-hours on to the consumers?

On january 1, a company issued and sold a $398,000, 6%, 10-year bond payable, and received proceeds of $393,000. interest is payable each june 30 and december 31. the company uses the straight-line method to amortize the discount. the journal entry to record the first interest payment is: