Bread Co. commenced operations during the year as a large importer and exporter of baked goods. The imports were all from one company in France. The export sales were conducted as drop shipments. Bread never took possession of the goods and they were merely transshipped at San Francisco. Bread Co. reported the following data:Purchases during the year$15.0 millionShipping costs from overseas$1.5 millionShipping costs to export customers$1.0 millionInventory at year end$3.0 millionWhat amount of shipping costs should be included in ABC Trading's year-end inventory valuation?a. $0b. $200,000c. $300,000d. $500,000

Cindy recently played in a softball game in which she misplayed a ground ball for an error. later, in the same game, she made a great catch on a very difficult play. according to the self-serving bias, she would attribute her error to and her good catch to her

You are head of the schwartz family endowment for the arts. you have decided to fund an arts school in the san francisco bay area in perpetuity. every 5 years, you will give the school $ 1 comma 000 comma 000. the first payment will occur 5 years from today. if the interest rate is 5.9 % per year, what is the present value of your gift?

Galwaysc electronics makes two products. model a requires component a and component c. model b requires component b and component c. new versions of both models are released each year with updated versions of all components. all components are sourced overseas, and abc contracts annually for a quantity of each component before seeing that year’s demand. components are only assembled into finished products once demand for each model is known. for the coming year, alwaysc’s purchasing manner has proposed ordering 500,000 units of component a, 630,000 of component b, and 1,000,000 units of component c. her boss has asked why she has recommended purchasing so much of components a and b when alwaysc will not have enough of component c to fully use all of the inventory of a and b. what factors might the purchasing manager cite to explain her recommended order? explain your reasoning.