The zakchari company has six processing departments for refining sugar—affination, carbonation, decolorization, boiling, recovery, and packaging. conversion costs are added evenly throughout each process, and materials are added at the beginning of each process. data from august for the recovery department are as follows: ? metric tons beginning work-in-process inventory 3,000 transferred in 18,500 ending work-in-process inventory 6,500 in august, 15,000 metric tons were completed and sent to the packaging department. the ending work-in-process inventory was 50% complete with respect to conversion costs. prepare a production cost report for the recovery department to show the equivalent units for direct materials and conversion costs. the weighted-average method is used.

In the fall, jay thompson decided to live in a university dormitory. he signed a dorm contract under which he was obligated to pay the room rent for the full college year. one clause stated that if he moved out during the year, he could sell his dorm contract to another student who would move into the dormitory as his replacement. the dorm cost was $5000 for the two semesters, which jay had already paid a month after he moved into the dorm, he decided he would prefer to live in an apartment. that week, after some searching for a replacement to fulfill his dorm contract, jay had two offers. one student offered to move in immediately and to pay jay $300 per month for the eight remaining months of the school year. a second student offered to move in the second semester and pay $2500 to jay. jay estimates his food cost per month is $500 if he lives in the dorm and $450 if he lives in an apartment with three other students. his share of the apartment rent and utilities will be $404 per month. assume each semester is 4.5 months long. disregard the small differences in the timing of the disbursements or receipts. what is the cost of the cheapest alternative?

The year-end financial statements of calloway company contained the following elements and corresponding amounts: assets = $34,000; liabilities = ? ; common stock = $6,400; revenue = $13,800; dividends = $1,450; beginning retained earnings = $4,450; ending retained earnings = $8,400. based on this information, the amount of expenses on calloway's income statement was

How an absolute advantage might affect a country's imports and exports?