1. Capitalizing vs. Expensing. Consider each of the items below. Place the proper letter in the blank space provided to indicate the nature of the account or accounts to be debited when recording each transaction using the preferred accounting treatment. Prepayments should be recorded in balance sheet accounts. Disregard income tax considerations unless instructed otherwise. a. asset(s) only b. accumulated amortization, depletion, or depreciation only c. expense only d. asset(s) and expense e. some other account or combination of accounts

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.)