When resources are allocated by markets, profits and losses provide information about
a. which products are priced too high and which are priced too low.
b. which resources are being used productively and which resources should be allocated to other uses.
c. which industries need to be subsidized and which need to be subject to additional regulation.
d. which businesses should be taxed more heavily and which should be subsidized.

Instructions: use the following information to construct the 2000 balance sheet and income statement for carolina business machines. round all numbers to the nearest whole dollar. all numbers are in thousands of dollars. be sure to read the whole problem before you jump in and get started. at the end of 1999 the firm had $43,000 in gross fixed assets. in 2000 they purchased an additional $14,000 of fixed asset equipment. accumulated depreciation at the end of 1999 was $21,000. the depreciation expense in 2000 is $4,620. at the end of 2000 the firm had $3,000 in cash and $3,000 in accounts payable. in 2000 the firm extended a total of $9,000 in credit to a number of their customers in the form of accounts receivable. the firm generated $60,000 in sales revenue in 2000. their cost of goods sold was 60 percent of sales. they also incurred salaries and wages expense of $10,000. to date the firm has $1,000 in accrued salaries and wages. they borrowed $10,000 from their local bank to finance the $15,000 in inventory they now have on hand. the firm also has $7,120 invested in marketable securities. the firm currently has $20,000 in long-term debt outstanding and paid $2,000 in interest on their outstanding debt. over the firm's life, shareholders have put up $30,000. eighty percent of the shareholder's funds are in the form of retained earnings. the par value per share of carolina business machines stock is

U. s. internet advertising revenue grew at the rate of r(t) = 0.82t + 1.14 (0 ≤ t ≤ 4) billion dollars/year between 2002 (t = 0) and 2006 (t = 4). the advertising revenue in 2002 was $5.9 billion.† (a) find an expression f(t) giving the advertising revenue in year t.

Record the journal entry for the provision for uncollectible accounts under each of the following independent assumptions: a. the allowance for doubtful accounts before adjustment has a credit balance of $500. b. the allowance for doubtful accounts before adjustment has a debit balance of $250. c. assume that octoberʼs credit sales were $70,000. uncollectible accounts expense is estimated at 2% of sales. smith, gaylord n.. excel applications for accounting principles (p. 51). cengage textbook. kindle edition.