Parker Corp., a U. S. company, had the following foreign currency transactions during 2021: 1. Purchased merchandise from a foreign supplier on July 5, 2021 for the U. S. dollar equivalent of $80,000 and paid the invoice on August 3, 2021 at the U. S. dollar equivalent of $82,000.
2. On October 1, 2021 borrowed the U. S. dollar equivalent of $872,000 evidenced by a non-interest-bearing note payable in euros on October 1, 2022. The U. S. dollar equivalent of the note amount was $860,000 on December 31, 2021, and $881,000 on October 1, 2022.

Required:
What amount should be included as a foreign exchange gain or loss from the two transactions for 2021?

An outside manufacturer has offered to produce 60,000 daks and ship them directly to andretti's customers. if andretti company accepts this offer, the facilities that it uses to produce daks would be idle; however, fixed manufacturing overhead costs would be reduced by 75%. because the outside manufacturer would pay for all shipping costs, the variable selling expenses would be only two-thirds of their present amount. what is andretti's avoidable cost per unit that it should compare to the price quoted by the outside manufacturer?

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