A business excludes money paid as salaries or wages to employees from operating surplus.
 
        
             
        
        
        
Option 2, When a buyer returns merchandise purchased for cash, the buyer will record the transaction as a debit to Cash and a credit to Merchandise Inventory.
When goods are returned, the accounts receivable or cash account is credited to repay cash or lower what the buyer owes, and the sales returns and allowances account is debited to reduce sales. The accounts involved in the transaction are the purchases account and the cash account if goods are paid for in cash. It debits the purchases account and credits the cash account. The cash account and buyer sales account are the accounts involved in a transaction when goods are sold for cash. It debits the cash account and credits the sales account.
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Answer:
The assembly line efficiency is 4.17% (to 2 decimal places)
Explanation:
Efficiency is a measure of productivity that is used to determine how well a target is achieved, by finding the ratio of the actual output to the expected output. In this example, the number of units is the output of the assembly line, and the assembly line efficiency is calculated as follows:
Assembly line efficiency = (actual output) /(required output) × 100
actual output = 25 minutes
if 5 minutes = 1 unit
∴ 25 minutes = 1/5 × 25 = 5 units 
∴ actual output = 5 units
required output = 120 units
∴ efficiency = 
= 4.17%
 
        
             
        
        
        
Answer:
Tremen's "Investment in Delany Company" account would have abalance of $3,214,000 at the end year of December 31 ,2021.
Explanation:
Dividend paid for the whole year = $170,000*4 = 680,000
= $3,070,000 + (40%)(1/2 of the year)($1,400,000 - $680,000
= $3,070,000 + 144,000
= $3,214,000