Calfee Corporation is a manufacturer that uses job-order costing. The company has supplied the following data for the just completed year: Beginning inventories: Raw materials $ 40,000 Work in process $ 19,000 Estimated total manufacturing overhead at the beginning of the year $595,000 Estimated direct labor-hours at the beginning of the year 35,000 direct labor-hours Results of operations: Raw materials purchased on account $ 423,000 Raw materials (all direct) requisitioned for use in production $ 420,000 Direct labor cost $ 641,000 Actual direct labor-hours 33,000 direct labor-hours Manufacturing overhead: Indirect labor cost $ 143,000 Other manufacturing overhead costs incurred $ 531,000 Cost of goods manufactured $1,441,000 The ending balance in the Work in Process inventory account is:

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