X-Mart uses the perpetual inventory system to account for its merchandise. On May 1, it purchased $400 of merchandise on account
with terms of 2/15, n/40. On May 3, X-Mart returned $50 of merchandise due to defect. Assuming that the purchase was paid for within the discount period, demonstrate the required journal entry for X-Mart to record the payment.
the opportunity cost of the good measured on the horizontal axis.
Explanation:
The Production possibilities frontiers is a curve that shows the various combination of two goods a company can produce when all its resources are fully utilised.
The PPF is concave to the origin. This means that as more quantities of a product is produced, the fewer resources it has available to produce another good. As a result, less of the other product would be produced. So, the opportunity cost of producing a good increase as more and more of that good is produced.
In Absorption costing, all production costs: direct labor, direct materials, and factory overhead whether fixed or variable are considered products costs.
In variable costing, only direct materials, direct labor and variable factory overhead are considered product costs.
So if units are produced are greater than units sold Absorption cost will be greater than Variable cost and vice versa.
Culture of a country can adversely affect the business
Explanation:
The culture of a country affects the costs of doing business in that country in the following ways -
a) In some countries, companies prefer to not work during the afternoon and hence they loose a large segment of business
b) Some countries entertain corruption practices and hence business do not flourish in such countries.
c) The pattern of working of government officials in a country affect the way in which an outsider entrepreneur is affected. The bad practices lower the ease of doing business and hence the business is lost
The documentary on prime time television that brought awareness to Cook Inc... being defendant in several lawsuits relating to it's defective tyres that has caused vehicles to overturn is a financial information that is relevant.
As a financial analyst, being presented with such information is very relevant and it makes me to consider it as a factor before issuing loan to the organization and also help to garner what the public'e perception of the company stock will be. In addition, the information will help to make predictions about future directions of the company's stock price and, evaluate the company's financial health and earnings potential to be able to pay back the loan if given the loan.
