Ryan Distribution Co. has determined its December 31, 2020 inventory on a FIFO basis at $980,000. Information pertaining to that inventory follows: Estimated selling price $1,020,000 Estimated cost of disposal 40,000 Normal profit margin 120,000 Current replacement cost 900,000 Ryan records losses that result from applying the lower-of-cost-or-market rule. At December 31, 2020, the loss that Ryan should recognize is

Suppose that a paving company produces paved parking spaces (q) using a fixed quantity of land (t) and variable quantities of cement (c) and labor (l). the firm is currently paving 1,000 parking spaces. the firm's cost of cement is $3 comma 600.003,600.00 per acre covered (c) and its cost of labor is $35.0035.00/hour (w). for the quantities of c and l that the firm has chosen, mp subscript upper c baseline equals 60mpc=60 and mp subscript upper l baseline equals 7mpl=7. is this firm minimizing its cost of producing parking spaces?