Beeman Company exchanged machinery with an appraised value of $4,680,000, a recorded cost of $7,200,000 and accumulated depreciation of $3,600,000 with Lacey Corporation for machinery Lacey owns. The machinery has an appraised value of $4,520,000, a recorded cost of $8,640,000, and accumulated depreciation of $4,752,000. Lacey also gave Beeman $160,000 in the exchange. Assume depreciation has already been updated. Instructions(a) Prepare the entries on both companies' books assuming that the exchange lacked commercial substance. (Round all computations to the nearest dollar.) (b) Prepare the entries on both companies ; books assuming that the exchange had commercial substance. (Round all computations to the nearest dollar.)

Suppose that fixed costs for a firm in the automobile industry (start-up costs of factories, capital equipment, and so on) are $5 billion and that variable costs are equal to $17,000 per finished automobile. because more firms increase competition in the market, the market price falls as more firms enter an automobile market, or specifically, , where n represents the number of firms in a market. assume that the initial size of the u.s. and the european automobile markets are 300 million and 533 million people, respectively.a. calculate the equilibrium number of firms in the u.s. and european automobile markets without trade.b. what is the equilibrium price of automobiles in the united states and europe if the automobile industry is closed to foreign trade? c. now suppose that the united states decides on free trade in automobiles with europe. the trade agreement with the europeans adds 533 million consumers to the automobile market, in addition to the 300 million in the united states. how many automobile firms will there be in the united states and europe combined? what will be the new equilibrium price of automobiles? d. why are prices in the united states different in (c) and (b)? are consumers better off with free trade? in what ways?