Normally you will see US Labor Productivity Increasing at an annual rate of around 6%. In reading the book you should see that it must continue to increase for our country to continue to have the standard of living that we do. What seemed odd to me was that in the 3rd Quarter of 2009, while our country is in the midst of a very deep recession, this number went to 14.8%. In the 4th Quarter it dropped to 6.4% and in the 1st Quarter of this year it was at 2.5%. Why the Big Spike in the 3rd Quarter of 2009

Exercise 15-7 crawford corporation incurred the following transactions. 1. purchased raw materials on account $53,000. 2. raw materials of $45,200 were requisitioned to the factory. an analysis of the materials requisition slips indicated that $9,400 was classified as indirect materials. 3. factory labor costs incurred were $65,400, of which $50,200 pertained to factory wages payable and $15,200 pertained to employer payroll taxes payable. 4. time tickets indicated that $55,000 was direct labor and $10,400 was indirect labor. 5. manufacturing overhead costs incurred on account were $81,700. 6. depreciation on the company’s office building was $8,100. 7. manufacturing overhead was applied at the rate of 160% of direct labor cost. 8. goods costing $89,400 were completed and transferred to finished goods. 9. finished goods costing $76,000 to manufacture were sold on account for $105,100. journalize the transactions. (credit account titles are automatically indented when amount is entered. do not indent manually.) no. account titles and explanation debit credit (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (to record the sale) (to record the cost of the sale) click if you would like to show work for this question: open show work

Which curve shows increasing opportunity cost as you give up more of one option? demand curve bow-shaped curve yield curve indifference curve

All of the following led to the collapse of the soviet economy except a. a lack of worker incentives. c. inadequate supply of consumer goods. b. a reliance on production quotas. d. the introduction of a market economy.