to make sure business is conducted safely and fairly
The government creates regulations in order to make sure business is conducted safely and fairly. Without regulation the market would have to auto regolate itself, which is a thing that it does, but the cost of this autoregulations are often too much. The government can help create basic directories to ensure that the trade is safe done.
Credit, capacity, collateral, and capital
Explanation:
Basic research
This research is conducted largely for the enhancement of knowledge and is research which does not have immediate commercial potential.
Explanation:
There are two alternatives
1. Sold for $6,300
The inventory parts should be sold for $6,300 as the current inventory parts are not relevant as it is a sunk cost i.e $18,500
2. Repair and after that sale it
Now in this case, we have to determine the benefit generated i.e come from
= Sale value - repairing cost
= $19,700 - $9,100
= $10,600
As we can see that the alternative 2 generated higher benefit as compare to the alternative 1 so it would be more beneficial for the company