"Harlequin Co. adopted the dollar-value LIFO retail method at the beginning of 2021 (its base year). Its beginning inventory for 2021 was $38,500 at cost and $74,500 at retail prices. At the end of 2021, it computed its estimated ending inventory at retail to be $115,000. Assuming its cost-to-retail percentage for 2021 transactions was 40%, and that the retail price index at the end of 2021 was 1.3, what is the inventory balance that Harlequin Co. would report in its 12/31/2021 balance sheet

(30 total points) suppose a firm’s production function is given by q = l1/2*k1/2. the marginal product of labor and the marginal product of capital are given by: mpl = 1/ 2 1/ 2 2l k , and mpk = 1/ 2 1/ 2 2k l . a) (12 points) if the price of labor is w = 48, and the price of capital is r = 12, how much labor and capital should the firm hire in order to minimize the cost of production if the firm wants to produce output q = 18?

Afirm plans to begin production of a new small appliance. the manager must decide whether to purchase the motors for the appliance from a vendor at $10 each or to produce them in-house. either of two processes could be used for in-house production; process a would have an annual fixed cost of $200,000 and a variable cost of $7 per unit, and process b would have an annual fixed cost of $175,000 and a variable cost of $8 per unit. determine the range of annual volume for which each of the alternatives would be best. (round your first answer to the nearest whole number. include the indifference value itself in this answer.)

Robert is a district manager who oversees several store managers in a national chain of restaurants. robert reports directly to the vice president of stores and marketing, a member of top management. robert is a middle manager.t/f