Suppose you have a fixed amount of income and spend equal amounts on two goods, x and y. the price of good x is px = $10, and the price of good y is py = $5. the marginal utility of x is mux = 60 utils, and the marginal utility of y is my = 15 utils. how should the consumption of x and y change, if at all, to increase utility

Connors academy reported inventory in the 2017 year-end balance sheet, using the fifo method, as $154,000. in 2018, the company decided to change its inventory method to lifo. if the company had used the lifo method in 2017, the company estimates that ending inventory would have been in the range $130,000-$135,000. what adjustment would connors make for this change in inventory method?

For example, the upper right cell shows that if expresso advertises and beantown doesn't advertise, expresso will make a profit of $15 million, and beantown will make a profit of $2 million. assume this is a simultaneous game and that expresso and beantown are both profit-maximizing firms. if expresso decides to advertise, it will earn a profit of $ million if beantown advertises and a profit of $ million if beantown does not advertise. if expresso decides not to advertise, it will earn a profit of $ million if beantown advertises and a profit of $ million if beantown does not advertise. if beantown advertises, expresso makes a higher profit if it chooses . if beantown doesn't advertise, expresso makes a higher profit if it chooses . suppose that both firms start off not advertising. if the firms act independently, what strategies will they end up choosing? expresso will choose to advertise and beantown will choose not to advertise. expresso will choose not to advertise and beantown will choose to advertise. both firms will choose to advertise. both firms will choose not to advertise.

The unadjusted trial balance of the manufacturing equitable at december 31, 2018, the end of its fiscal year, included the following account balances. manufacturing’s 2018 financial statements were issued on april 1, 2019. accounts receivable $ 114,250 accounts payable 53,600 bank notes payable 670,000 mortgage note payable 1,270,000 other information: the bank notes, issued august 1, 2018, are due on july 31, 2019, and pay interest at a rate of 12%, payable at maturity. the mortgage note is due on march 1, 2019. interest at 11% has been paid up to december 31 (assume 11% is a realistic rate). manufacturing intended at december 31, 2018, to refinance the note on its due date with a new 10-year mortgage note. in fact, on march 1, manufacturing paid $263,000 in cash on the principal balance and refinanced the remaining $1,007,000. included in the accounts receivable balance at december 31, 2018, were two subsidiary accounts that had been overpaid and had credit balances totaling $19,650. the accounts were of two major customers who were expected to order more merchandise from manufacturing and apply the overpayments to those future purchases. on november 1, 2018, manufacturing rented a portion of its factory to a tenant for $32,400 per year, payable in advance. the payment for the 12 months ended october 31, 2019, was received as required and was credited to rent revenue. required: (1) prepare any necessary adjusting journal entries at december 31, 2018, pertaining to each item of other information (2) prepare the current and long-term liability sections of the december 31, 2018, balance sheet. balance sheet (partial) at december 31, 2018 current liabilities: total current liabilities long-term liabilities: