For each of the following scenarios, determine which benefit of international trade applies: lower-priced goods, increased variety of products, or access to scarce resources. a. Today most television sets bought in the United Stated are made in China; however, this was not the case twenty years ago. (Click to select) b. In large grocery stores in the United States, consumers can buy noodles from Asia, soups from France, pickled herring from Scandinavia, and beer from Germany. (Click to select) c. The United States has become a prime location for producers of semiconductors, whose products are then exported to nations around the world. This choice to produce in the United States is largely due to the access to the high-skilled workforce that is required for this type of production. (Click to select) d. While many developed nations have at least one domestic car manufacturer, consumers in these nations also have access to cars produced in other nations. (Click to select) e. The United States has long been the world's largest exporter of wheat. The access to vast, fertile, and highly productive soil combined with high-technology farming practices have made the United States a very cost-efficient producer of agricultural goods. (Click to select)

Instructions: use the following information to construct the 2000 balance sheet and income statement for carolina business machines. round all numbers to the nearest whole dollar. all numbers are in thousands of dollars. be sure to read the whole problem before you jump in and get started. at the end of 1999 the firm had $43,000 in gross fixed assets. in 2000 they purchased an additional $14,000 of fixed asset equipment. accumulated depreciation at the end of 1999 was $21,000. the depreciation expense in 2000 is $4,620. at the end of 2000 the firm had $3,000 in cash and $3,000 in accounts payable. in 2000 the firm extended a total of $9,000 in credit to a number of their customers in the form of accounts receivable. the firm generated $60,000 in sales revenue in 2000. their cost of goods sold was 60 percent of sales. they also incurred salaries and wages expense of $10,000. to date the firm has $1,000 in accrued salaries and wages. they borrowed $10,000 from their local bank to finance the $15,000 in inventory they now have on hand. the firm also has $7,120 invested in marketable securities. the firm currently has $20,000 in long-term debt outstanding and paid $2,000 in interest on their outstanding debt. over the firm's life, shareholders have put up $30,000. eighty percent of the shareholder's funds are in the form of retained earnings. the par value per share of carolina business machines stock is

Used cars usually have options: higher depreciation rate than new cars lower financing costs than new cars lower insurance premiums than new cars lower maintenance costs than new cars

The textbook defines ethics as “the principles of conduct governing an individual or a group,” and specifically as the standards one uses to decide what their conduct should be. to what extent do you believe that what happened at bp (british petrolium) is as much a breakdown in the company’s ethical systems as it is in its safety systems, and how would you defend your conclusion?