Ace Company purchased a machine valued at $327,000 on August 1. The equipment has an estimated useful life of seven years or 2.5 million units. The equipment is estimated to have a salvage value of $8,900. Assuming the straight-line method of depreciation, what is the amount of depreciation expense that needs to be recorded at the end of the first year?

If temper company, a manufacturer of mattresses, was considering moving its production facilities to china but decided against it because the additional costs of shipping the mattresses back to the u.s. would offset the cost savings associated with moving the production facilities, the increased costs associated with shipping would be an example ofanswers: learning-curve economies.diseconomies of scale.economies of scale.competitive advantages.

Match the vocabulary word to the correct definition. 1. sexual harassment 2. terminate 3. recruitment 4. professional development 5. union a. any unwanted sexual attention, the suggestions that maintaining one’s job or professional advancement depends on sexual favors, or verbal and/or physical harassment of a sexual nature b. to fire from a job or end a professional relationship c. an organization of those in the same industry who join together to more effectively bargain with employers d. the process of attracting and hiring employees e. continuing education in a chosen field

The basic difference between macroeconomics and microeconomics is that: a. microeconomics looks at the forest (aggregate markets) while macroeconomics looks at the trees (individual markets). b. macroeconomics is concerned with groups of individuals while microeconomics is concerned with single countries. c. microeconomics is concerned with the trees (individual markets) while macroeconomics is concerned with the forest (aggregate markets). d. macroeconomics is concerned with generalization while microeconomics is concerned with specialization.