A bagel shop sells fresh baked bagels from 5 a. m. until 7 p. m. every day. The shop does not sell day-old bagels, so all unsold bagels are thrown away at 7 p. m. each day. The cost of making and selling a dozen bagels is $1.00; there are no costs associated with throwing bagels away. If the manager has 8 dozen bagels left at 6:30 p. m. on a particular day, which of the following alternatives is most attractive?

A. Lower the price of the remaining bagels, but under no circumstances should the price fall below $1.00 per dozen.
B. Lower the price of the remaining bagels, even if the price falls below $1.00 per dozen.
C. Starting tomorrow, lower the price on all bagels so they will all be sold earlier in the day.
D. Throw the bagels away and produce 8 fewer dozen bagels tomorrow.

Which financial component is a mandatory deduction from your gross pay? a. sales tax b. social security tax c. health insurance d. disaster relief fund (drf) e. voluntary deduction

Consider the local telephone company, a natural monopoly. the following graph shows the monthly demand curve for phone services and the company’s marginal revenue (mr), marginal cost (mc), and average total cost (atc) curves. 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 price (dollars per subscription) quantity (thousands of subscriptions) d mr mc atc 8, 60 suppose that the government has decided not to regulate this industry, and the firm is free to maximize profits, without constraints. complete the first row of the following table. pricing mechanism short run long-run decision quantity price profit (subscriptions) (dollars per subscription) profit maximization marginal-cost pricing average-cost pricing suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to marginal cost. complete the second row of the previous table. suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to average total cost. complete the third row of the previous table. under average-cost pricing, the government will raise the price of output whenever a firm’s costs increase, and lower the price whenever a firm’s costs decrease. over time, under the average-cost pricing policy, what will the local telephone company most likely do

Perez, inc., applies the equity method for its 25 percent investment in senior, inc. during 2018, perez sold goods with a 40 percent gross profit to senior, which sold all of these goods in 2018. how should perez report the effect of the intra-entity sale on its 2018 income statement?