Hardin Widget Manufacturing began operations in January 2021. Hardin sells widgets that carry a two-year manufacturer's warranty against defects in workmanship. Hardin's management projects that 2% of the widgets will require repair during the first year of the warranty while approximately 6% will require repair during the second year of the warranty. The widgets sell for $400 each. The average cost to repair a widget is $50. The company sells 60% of the widgets to retail customers who must pay a 6% sales tax. Sales and warranty information for 2021 and 2022 are as follows: 2021: Sold 130 widgets on account, incurred warranty expenditures of $230 for widget repairs.
2022: Sold 230 widgets on account, actual payments for warranty expenditures were $430.

Required:
a. Prepare journal entries that summarize the sales and any aspects of the warranty for 2021.
b. Prepare journal entries that summarize the sales and any aspects of the warranty for 2022.

5. profit maximization and shutting down in the short run suppose that the market for polos is a competitive market. the following graph shows the daily cost curves of a firm operating in this market. 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 50 45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 price (dollars per polo) quantity (thousands of polos) mc atc avc for each price in the following table, calculate the firm's optimal quantity of units to produce, and determine the profit or loss if it produces at that quantity, using the data from the previous graph to identify its total variable cost. assume that if the firm is indifferent between producing and shutting down, it will produce. (hint: you can select the purple points [diamond symbols] on the previous graph to see precise information on average variable cost.) price quantity total revenue fixed cost variable cost profit (dollars per polo) (polos) (dollars) (dollars) (dollars) (dollars) 12.50 135,000 27.50 135,000 45.00 135,000 if the firm shuts down, it must incur its fixed costs (fc) in the short run. in this case, the firm's fixed cost is $135,000 per day. in other words, if it shuts down, the firm would suffer losses of $135,000 per day until its fixed costs end (such as the expiration of a building lease). this firm's shutdown price—that is, the price below which it is optimal for the firm to shut down—is per polo.

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Two assets have the following expected returns and standard deviations when the risk-free rate is 5%: asset a e(ra) = 18.5% σa = 20% asset b e(rb) = 15% σb = 27% an investor with a risk aversion of a = 3 would find that on a risk-return basis. a. only asset a is acceptable b. only asset b is acceptable c. neither asset a nor asset b is acceptable d. both asset a and asset b are acceptable