William West is an engineer who worked for Bechtel Corporation, which is headquartered in San Francisco and operates worldwide. Bechtel is an organization of about 150 engineering and construction companies. Except for a two-month period in 1995, Bechtel employed West on long-term assignments or short-term projects for thirty years. In October 2007 West was offered work on a project with Saudi Arabian Bechtel Co. (SABCO), which West understood would be for two years. Two months after moving to Saudi Arabia, West was terminated because (he believed) of his age and an opinion that he lacked energy. After returning to California, West received numerous offers from Bechtel for work that suited his abilities and met his salary expectations. He did not accept the offers and did not look for other work. West then filed a suit in a California against Bechtel, alleging breach of contract and discrimination. The claim sought as damages: (i) the salary he would have earned with SABCO and (ii) compensation for future unknown assignments. What defenses can Bechtel present and how should the court decide? What factors should the court consider?

Suppose that two firms produce differentiated products and compete in prices. as in class, the two firms are located at two ends of a line one mile apart. consumers are evenly distributed along the line. the firms have identical marginal cost, $60. firm b produces a product with value $110 to consumers. firm a (located at 0 on the unit line) produces a higher quality product with value $120 to consumers. the cost of travel are directly related to the distance a consumer travels to purchase a good. if a consumerhas to travel a mile to purchase a good, the incur a cost of $20. if they have to travel x fraction of a mile, they incur a cost of $20x. (a) write down the expressions for how much a consumer at location d would value the products sold by firms a and b, if they set prices p_{a} and p_{b} ? (b) based on your expressions in (a), how much will be demanded from each firm if prices p_{a} and p_{b} are set? (c) what are the nash equilibrium prices?

Match the different financial task to their corresponding financial life cycle phases

For each of the following cases determine the ending balance in the inventory account. (hint: first, determine the total cost of inventory available for sale. next, subtract the cost of the inventory sold to arrive at the ending balance.)a. jill’s dress shop had a beginning balance in its inventory account of $40,000. during the accounting period jill’s purchased $75,000 of inventory, returned $5,000 of inventory, and obtained $750 of purchases discounts. jill’s incurred $1,000 of transportation-in cost and $600 of transportation-out cost. salaries of sales personnel amounted to $31,000. administrative expenses amounted to $35,600. cost of goods sold amounted to $82,300.b. ken’s bait shop had a beginning balance in its inventory account of $8,000. during the accounting period ken’s purchased $36,900 of inventory, obtained $1,200 of purchases allowances, and received $360 of purchases discounts. sales discounts amounted to $640. ken’s incurred $900 of transportation-in cost and $260 of transportation-out cost. selling and administrative cost amounted to $12,300. cost of goods sold amounted to $33,900.a& b. cost of goods avaliable for sale? ending inventory?