Which one of the following states a central element of the economic way of thinking? a. scarce goods are priceless. b. incentives matter--human choice is influenced in predictable ways by changes in personal costs and benefits. c. the realism of the assumptions is the best test of an economic theory. d. when deciding how to allocate time, the concept of opportunity cost is meaningless.

On january 15, the end of the first biweekly pay period of the year, north company’s payroll register showed that its employees earned $32,000 of sales salaries. withholdings from the employees’ salaries include fica social security taxes at the rate of 6.2%, fica medicare taxes at the rate of 1.45%, $3,000 of federal income taxes, $772 of medical insurance deductions, and $260 of union dues. no employee earned > $7,000 in this first period. prepare the journal entry to record north company’s january 15 (employee) payroll expenses and liabilities.

Job 456 was recently completed. the following data have been recorded on its job cost sheet: direct materials $ 2,418 direct labor-hours 74 labor-hours direct labor wage rate $ 13 per labor-hour machine-hours 137 machine-hours the corporation applies manufacturing overhead on the basis of machine-hours. the predetermined overhead rate is $14 per machine-hour. the total cost that would be recorded on the job cost sheet for job 456 would be: multiple choice $3,380 $5,298 $6,138 $2,622

Jodie lives in a developing nation where the local markets are underdeveloped in terms of domestic exposure. her country wants to boost these domestic industries in the face of heavy competition from foreign players in the market. which trade practice should jodie’s country adopt to shield its domestic industries from foreign players? jodie’s country should adopt to shield its domestic industries from foreign players. typing answer