Name three barriers to entry in a market that can lead to the formation of an oligopoly.

Steele bicycle manufacturing company currently produces the handlebars used in manufacturing its bicycles, which are high-quality racing bikes with limited sales. steele produces and sells only 10,000 bikes each year. due to the low volume of activity, steele is unable to obtain the economies of scale that larger producers achieve. for example, steele could buy the handlebars for $31 each: they cost $34 each to make. the following is a detailed breakdown of current production costs: after seeing these figures, steele's president remarked that it would be foolish for the company to continue to produce the handlebars at $34 each when it can buy them for $31 each. calculate the total relevant cost. do you agree with the president's conclusion?

Journalize the following transactions that occurred in september 2015 for aquamarines. no explanations are needed. identify each accounts payable and accounts receivable with the vendor or customer name. sep. 3 purchased merchandise inventory on account from shallin wholesalers, $5,000. terms 1/15, n/eom, fob shipping point. 4 paid freight bill of $80 on september 3 purchase. 4 purchased merchandise inventory for cash of $1,700. 6 returned $500 of inventory from september 3 purchase. 8 sold merchandise inventory to hermosa company, $6,000, on account. terms 2/15, n/35. cost of goods, $2,640. 9 purchased merchandise inventory on account from thomas wholesalers, $8,000. terms 2/10, n/30, fob destination. 10 made payment to shallin wholesalers for goods purchased on september 3, less return and discount. 12 received payment from hermosa company, less discount. 13 after negotiations, received a $200 allowance from thomas wholesalers. 15 sold merchandise inventory to jordan company, $2,500, on account. terms 1/10, n/eom. cost of goods, $1,050. 22 made payment, less allowance, to thomas wholesalers for goods purchased on september 9. 23 jordan company returned $400 of the merchandise sold on september 15. cost of goods, $160. 25 sold merchandise inventory to smithsons for $1,100 on account that cost $400. terms of 2/10, n/30 were offered, fob shipping point. as a courtesy to smithsons, $75 of freight was added to the invoice for which cash was paid by aquamarines. 26 after negotiations, granted a $100 allowance to smithsons for merchandise purchased on september 25. 29 received payment from smithsons, less allowance and discount. 30 received payment from jordan company, less return.

Warner inc. sells a high-speed retrieval system for mining information. it provides the following information for the year. budgeted actual overhead cost $965,700 $905,000 machine hours 58,570 49,200 direct labor hours 107,300 104,200 overhead is applied on the basis of direct labor hours. compute the predetermined overhead rate. predetermined overhead rate $ per direct labor hour link to text determine the amount of overhead applied for the year. the amount of overhead applied $