Sam cresco, president of cresco company, has instructed sharon gross, the head of the accounting department for cresco company, to report the company’s land in the company’s accounting reports at its fair value of $170,000 instead of its cost of $100,000. cresco says, “showing the land at $170,000 will make our company look like a better investment when we try to attract new investors next month.” explain the ethical situation involved for sharon gross, identifying the stakeholders and the alternatives.

Jurvin enterprises is a manufacturing company that had no beginning inventories. a subset of the transactions that it recorded during a recent month is shown below. $76,700 in raw materials were purchased for cash. $71,400 in raw materials were used in production. of this amount, $66,300 was for direct materials and the remainder was for indirect materials. total labor wages of $151,700 were incurred and paid. of this amount, $134,300 was for direct labor and the remainder was for indirect labor. additional manufacturing overhead costs of $126,300 were incurred and paid. manufacturing overhead of $126,800 was applied to production using the company's predetermined overhead rate. all of the jobs in process at the end of the month were completed. all of the completed jobs were shipped to customers. any underapplied or overapplied overhead for the period was closed to cost of goods sold.required: 1. post the above transactions to t-accounts.2. determine the cost of goods sold for the period.

Consider a small island country whose only industry is weaving. the following table shows information about the small economy in two different years. complete the table by calculating physical capital per worker as well as labor productivity. hint: recall that productivity is defined as the amount of goods and services a worker can produce per hour. in this problem, measure productivity as the quantity of goods per hour of labor. year physical capital labor force physical capital per worker labor hours output labor productivity (looms) (workers) (looms) (hours) (garments) (garments per hour of labor) 2024 160 40 1,800 14,400 2025 180 60 3,900 23,400

Acompany that makes shopping carts for supermarkets and other stores recently purchased some new equipment that reduces the labor content of the jobs needed to produce the shopping carts. prior to buying the new equipment, the company used 6 workers, who produced an average of 79 carts per hour. workers receive $16 per hour, and machine coast was $49 per hour. with the new equipment, it was possible to transfer one of the workers to another department, and equipment cost increased by $11 per hour while output increased by four carts per hour. a) compute the multifactor productivity (mfp) (labor plus equipment) under the prior to buying the new equipment. the mfp (carts/$) = (round to 4 decimal places). b) compute the productivity changes between the prior to and after buying the new equipment. the productivity growth = % (round to 2 decimal places)