RCO Ltd is a UK based electronics manufacturer and retailer. Its main products are Netbook computers, PCs and Electronic Calculators. The current price of the Netbook is £500, the PC is £800 and the calculator is £40. This year the firm sold 10,000 Netbooks, 20,000 PCs and 1 million calculators. In an attempt to improve revenue the managers of the firm have decided to increase all prices by 10%. Market research has suggested that the price elasticity of demand for each product is: Netbook: -1.5; PC: -2.5; Calculator: -0.6.
You have been asked to evaluate and comment on the planned price increases.
Would a 10% price reduction have been better for some or all of the products? (support your answer with calculations showing the change in sales for each item after the price change) (6 marks)

First, add accounts payable—j. c. hollings and accounts payable—craft bank from the transactions prepared in exam figure 2 to the chart of accounts in exam figure 1. next, open all ledger accounts using the form in exam figure 3. then, post the journal entries from exam figure 2 to the ledger accounts and balance each ledger account. be sure to post the balance of each account (from page 13 of the exam) before you post the transactions you just journalized. 12. after posting the journal entries to the ledger, what is the balance of the cash account? a. debit $4,056.82 b. credit $3,013.90 c. credit $1,042.92 d. debit $3,013.90 13. after posting the journal entries to the ledger, what is the balance of the equipment—store account? a. debit $4,500 b. credit $1,500 c. debit $8,000 d. credit $4,500 14. on may 3, what is the balance of the equipment—office account? a. debit $5,090 b. debit $690 c. debit $4,400 d. credit $5,090 15. what is the balance of the accounts payable—bellhaven bank account? a. debit $1,000 b. debit $4,000 c. credit $5,000 d. credit $4,000 16. after posting the journal entries to the ledger, what is the balance of the supplies account? a. debit $500 b. debit $542.92 c. 0 d. credit $542.92 17. after posting the journal entries to the ledger, what is the balance of the accounts payable—craft bank account? a. 0 b. credit $3,500 c. debit $3,500 d. credit 0 18. after posting the journal entries to the ledger, the opening balance of the p. woodsley—capital account was a. increased. b. decreased. c. unchanged. d. deleted. 19. what entry do you make in the post ref. column of the ledger to show that you posted the transactions from the journal? a. 1 b. j1 c. leave it blank d. 11 20. asset accounts are increased by a. entries to the debit side of the account. b. crediting a liability account. c. entries to the right side of the account. d. adding a credit entry to the account’s normal balance.

Auniversity spent $1.8 million to install solar panels atop a parking garage. these panels will have a capacity of 400 kilowatts (kw) and have a life expectancy of 20 years. suppose that the discount rate is 20%, that electricity can be purchased at $0.10 per kilowatt-hour (kwh), and that the marginal cost of electricity production using the solar panels is zero. hint: it may be easier to think of the present value of operating the solar panels for 1 hour per year first. approximately how many hours per year will the solar panels need to operate to enable this project to break even? a. a.3,696.48 b.14,785.92 c.9,241.20 if the solar panels can operate only for 8,317 hours a year at maximum, the project (would/would not)break even?

What would not cause duff beer’s production possibilities curve to expand in the short run? a. improved manufacturing technology b. additional resources c. increased demand