Task 1: researching today’s trade agreements
the international trade administration (ita) is a division of the us department of commerce that focuses on the nation’s trade issues and companies do business in and with other countries. the ita website contains a wide variety of information on issues related to international trade. read about the trade agreements the united states is currently negotiating, and answer the questions that follow.

choose a trade agreement that the us is currently negotiating that you would like to learn more about. which trade agreement did you choose?

Elliott company produces large quantities of a standardized product. the following information is available for its production activities for march. units costs beginning work in process inventory 2,500 beginning work in process inventory started 25,000 direct materials $ 3,725 ending work in process inventory 5,000 conversion 11,580 $ 15,305 status of ending work in process inventory direct materials added 185,750 materials—percent complete 100 % direct labor added 182,375 conversion—percent complete 30 % overhead applied (140% of direct labor) 255,325 total costs to account for $ 638,755 ending work in process inventory $ 62,530 prepare a process cost summary report for this company, showing costs charged to production, unit cost information, equivalent units of production, cost per eup, and its cost assignment and reconciliation. use the weighted-average method. (round "cost per eup" to 2 decimal places.)

You are evaluating two different silicon wafer milling machines. the techron i costs $285,000, has a three-year life, and has pretax operating costs of $78,000 per year. the techron ii costs $495,000, has a five-year life, and has pretax operating costs of $45,000 per year. for both milling machines, use straight-line depreciation to zero over the project’s life and assume a salvage value of $55,000. if your tax rate is 24 percent and your discount rate is 11 percent, compute the eac for both machines.

Penelope summers received certain income benefits in 2018. she received $1,400 of state unemployment insurance benefits, $2,000 from a federal unemployment trust fund and $3,700 workers’ compensation received for an occupational injury. what amount of the compensation must penelope include in her income