Your friend points to the wages earned by your economics professor and her teaching assistant (TA) as an example of income inequality. Your tenured professor earns $120,000 , drives a BMW, and vacations in Europe, whereas your TA earns $10,000 per year, rides a bike, and vacations at his mom's house. Because they both teach for a living, your friend argues that this income inequality is not just. Which reply uses the economic life cycle to respond to your friend's argument? Your professor has many more responsibilities than your TA and is, therefore, paid more. Your professor and TA earn different amounts now but they will have similar earnings over the course of their lives. Your professor was once a TA, and your TA will one day make better money. Older workers typically have more expenses than younger workers due to the high cost of healthcare and other costs that occur later in the life cycle. The differences in wages occur because older workers need more money than younger workers. Your professor has more bargaining power than your TA and, therefore, has higher earnings.

Fred smithers, a recent college graduate decided to open his own portable juice bar, smithers smoothies, to wheel around newport beach. you, a trusted friend of fred, are a business major that has also recently graduated and agreed to handle the books for a while to get some practical experience and have a favor that you can ask of fred in the future. given the following five transactions concerning the new venture, prepare the necessary journal entries for the transactions, post the journal entries to appropriate t accounts and prepare a trial balance as of the end of the month in order to answer to the necessary may 2: fred invests $12,000 of his own money to start the new company. this money was obtained from a part-time job working at a legal firm while he was in school. may 3: fred spent $5,100 cash to purchase a refrigerated trailer that he can pull behind his car and set up at the beach. under your advice, fred agrees to place the new asset under an account called "equipment." may 6: fred bought $640 of supplies on account from the flav-o-rite confectioners company. because they will last longer than a single accounting period fred agrees to record them as, "supplies" as per your suggestion. may 13: fred sat on the beach for six hours without a single sale and was feeling very down. right before he left, however, a plumber escorting his family reunion along the beach stopped by his stand and bought $800 worth of smoothies for the entire family. under your advice, fred agrees to call this cash revenue, "sales." may 15: excited about his new venture, fred withdraws $350 from the company to take his girlfriend out to dinner. what would be the balance in the cash account at the end of the period following the posting of all the transactions?

In june, one of the processinthe assembly department started the month with 25,000 units in its beginning work in process inventory. an additional 310,000 units were transferred in from the prior department during the month to begin processing in the assembly department. there were 30,000 units completed and transferred to the next processing department during the month. how many units the assembly department started the month with 25,000 units in its beginning work in process inventory. an additional 310,000 units were transferred in from the prior department during the month to begin processing in the assembly department. there were 30,000 units completed and transferred to the next processing department during the month. how many units were in its ending work in process inventory

Anewspaper story on the effect of higher milk prices on the market for ice cream contained the following: "as a result [of the increase in milk prices], retail prices for ice cream are up 4 percent from last year. . and ice cream consumption is down 3 percent." source: john curran, "ice cream, they scream: milk fat costs drive up ice cream prices," associated press, july 23, 2001. based on the information given, what is the price elasticity of demand for ice cream?