Ace Leasing acquires equipment and leases it to customers under long-term direct financing leases. Ace earns interest under these arrangements at a 6% annual rate. Ace leased a machine it purchased for $650,000 under an arrangement that specified annual payments beginning at the inception of the lease for six years. The lessee had the option to purchase the machine at the end of the lease term for $150,000 when it was expected to have a residual value of $210,000. (FV of $1, PV of $1, FVA of $1, PVA of $1,FVAD of $1 and PVAD of $1) (Use appropriate factor(s) from the tables provided.)Calculate the amount of the annual lease payments. Amount to be recovered $Bargain Purchase Option $Amount to be recovered through periodic lease payments $Lease Payment:Amount of fair value recovered each lease payment $

Morgana company identifies three activities in its manufacturing process: machine setups, machining, and inspections. estimated annual overhead cost for each activity is $168,000, $315,900, an $97,200, respectively. the cost driver for each activity and the expected annual usage are number of setups 2,100, machine hours 24,300, and number of inspections 1,800. compute the overhead rate for each activity. machine setups $ per setup machining $ per machine hour inspections $ per inspection

Materials purchases (on credit). direct materials used in production. direct labor paid and assigned to work in process inventory. indirect labor paid and assigned to factory overhead. overhead costs applied to work in process inventory. actual overhead costs incurred, including indirect materials. (factory rent and utilities are paid in cash.) transfer of jobs 306 and 307 to finished goods inventory. cost of goods sold for job 306. revenue from the sale of job 306. assignment of any underapplied or overapplied overhead to the cost of goods sold account. (the amount is not material.) 2. prepare journal entries for the month of april to record the above transactions.

Consider the local telephone company, a natural monopoly. the following graph shows the monthly demand curve for phone services and the company’s marginal revenue (mr), marginal cost (mc), and average total cost (atc) curves. 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 price (dollars per subscription) quantity (thousands of subscriptions) d mr mc atc 8, 60 suppose that the government has decided not to regulate this industry, and the firm is free to maximize profits, without constraints. complete the first row of the following table. pricing mechanism short run long-run decision quantity price profit (subscriptions) (dollars per subscription) profit maximization marginal-cost pricing average-cost pricing suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to marginal cost. complete the second row of the previous table. suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to average total cost. complete the third row of the previous table. under average-cost pricing, the government will raise the price of output whenever a firm’s costs increase, and lower the price whenever a firm’s costs decrease. over time, under the average-cost pricing policy, what will the local telephone company most likely do