Historical Art is a new business. During its first year of operations, credit sales were $50,000 and collections from credit sales were $34,000. One account for $500 was written off. Management uses the percent-of-sales method to account for bad debts expense and estimates 3% of credit sales to be uncollectible. What is the balance of accounts receivable at the end of the first year?

You are a newspaper publisher. you are in the middle of a one-year rental contract for your factory that requires you to pay $500,000 per month, and you have contractual labor obligations of $1 million per month that you can't get out of. you also have a marginal printing cost of $.25 per paper as well as a marginal delivery cost of $.10 per paper. if sales fall by 20 percent from 1 million papers per month to 800,000 papers per month, what happens to the afc per paper?