Consider two barter economies: duos and varietas. duos produces two different goods, whereas varietas produces 80 different goods. both countries have the same number of people. in which barter economy is it more likely that the means of payment and the units of account would be efficient? how many relative prices are there in duos compared with varietas? which economy would benefit more from adopting money?

On july 1, oura corp. made a sale of $ 450,000 to stratus, inc. on account. terms of the sale were 2/10, n/30. stratus makes payment on july 9. oura uses the net method when accounting for sales discounts. ignore cost of goods sold and the reduction of inventory. a. prepare all oura's journal entries. b. what net sales does oura report?

Banana computers has decided to procure processing chips required for its laptops from external suppliers instead of manufacturing them in their own facilities. how will this decision affect the firm? a. the firm will be protected against the principal-agent problem. b. the firm's administrative costs will be low because of necessary bureaucracy. c. the firm will have more flexibility in purchasing and comparing prices of goods and services. d. the firm will have high-powered incentives, such as hourly wages and salaries.

Inventory by three methods; cost of goods sold the units of an item available for sale during the year were as follows: jan. 1 inventory 20 units at $1,800 may 15 purchase 31 units at $1,950 aug. 7 purchase 13 units at $2,040 nov. 20 purchase 16 units at $2,100 there are 18 units of the item in the physical inventory at december 31. determine the cost of ending inventory and the cost of goods sold by three methods, presenting your answers in the following form: round your final answers to the nearest dollar. cost inventory method ending inventory cost of goods sold a. first-in, first-out method $ $ b. last-in, first-out method $ $ c. weighted average cost method $ $