Answer: Supply curve - Increases rightwards
Market Price - Falls
Economic Profit - Decreases
Explanation: Perfect Competition market structure is with large number of buyers & sellers , homogeneous products & uniform prices , perfect information and free entry and exit.
'Free Entry and Exit' implies - no firm earns super normal (economic) profits or abnormal losses in long run. When firms are earning economic profits in short run, new firms enter (because of free entry) & the industry supply increase reducing price , which further reduces the super normal profits to normal profits in long run. Similarly - Abnormal losses make firms exit (freely), reduce supply & increase price , hence reducing abnormal losses & resuming normal profits.
A. Record journal entries
To have a fundamental and legal basis, there should always be a purchase contract between the buyer and the seller. This contract contains the agreement and requirements for the purchase to proceed. So in this case, it is always agreed in the contract who pays the cost.
Answer:
a. costs of production Pulping: 165000 conversion: 159000
b. Cost per equivalent unit Pulping: 0.65 conversion: 0.20
c. cost of units completed and transferred out: Pulping: 102050 conversion: 31400 Total: 133450
d. Cost of reconciliation:
Cost of beginning in process inventory (4800 + 500) = 5300
Costs added to production during the period (102450 + 31800) =134250