Pelicans Ice is a snow cone stand near the local park. To plan for the future, Pelicans Ice wants to determine its cost behavior patterns. It has the following information available about its operating costs and the number of snow cones served. Month Number of snow cones Total operating costs January 6,400 $5,980 February 7,000 $6,400 March 4,000 $5,000 April 6,900 $6,330 May 9,000 $8,000 June 7,250 $6,575 Using the highminuslow method, the fixed costs for a month are

Which of the following pairs is most similar to each other? a. barter goods and fiat money b. digital money and barter goods c. fiat money and digital money d. commodity money and digital money

Following is a list of various costs incurred in producing replacement automobile parts. with respect to the production and sale of these auto parts, classify each cost as either variable costs, fixed costs, or mixed costs. 1. oil used in manufacturing equipment 2. plastic 3. property taxes, $165,000 per year on factory building and equipment 4. salary of plant manager 5. cost of labor for hourly workers 6. packaging 7. factory cleaning costs, $6,000 per month 8. metal 9. rent on warehouse, $10,000 per month plus $25 per square foot of storage used 10. property insurance premiums, $3,600 per month plus $0.01 for each dollar of property over $1,200,000 11. straight-line depreciation on the production equipment 12. hourly wages of machine operators 13. electricity costs, $0.20 per kilowatt-hour 14. computer chip (purchased from a vendor) 15. pension cost, $1.00 per employee hour on the job

Social computing forces companies to deal with customers as opposed to