Tru-Shine is a cleaning company in the United States that offers various cleaning products and services. After gaining popularity in the United States, th company decided to expand its business in other North American nations. The company entered into an agreement with some local cleaning companies in Canada where the local companies would sell its products and services under the same trade name. Tru-Shine also agreed to provide the training and necessary equipments and supplies to the local companies. In this example, the strategy used by Tru-Shine for entering foreign markets is an example of a. direct investment
b. value engineering
c. franchising
d. sole sourcing

Unrecorded depreciation on the trucks at the end of the year is $40,000. the total amount of accrued interest expense at year-end is $6,000. the cost of unused office supplies still available at year-end is $2,000. 1. use the above information about the company’s adjustments to complete a 10-column work sheet. 2a. prepare the year-end closing entries for dylan delivery company as of december 31, 2017. 2b. determine the capital amount to be reported on the december 31, 2017 balance sheet.

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

In the supply-and-demand schedule shown above, at the lowest price of $50, producers supply music players and consumers demand music players.