Vibrant Company had $850,000 of sales in each of three consecutive years 2016–2018, and it purchased merchandise costing $500,00
0 in each of those years. It also maintained a $250,000 physical inventory from the beginning to the end of that three-year period. In accounting for inventory, it made an error at the end of year 2016 that caused its year-end 2016 inventory to appear on its statements as $230,000 rather than the correct $250,000. Required: 1. Determine the correct amount of the company's gross profit in each of the years 2016−2018. 2. Prepare comparative income statements to show the effect of this error on the company's cost of goods sold and gross profit for each of the years 2016−2018.
The difference will be between the gross profit in the years 2016 and 2017, because of the error. This is because the error will cause a difference in the cost of sold goods.
In the year 2018, there will be no difference because the beginning inventory and final inventory are right.
But, for the three-year period, there will no be a difference in the total, because both, beginning and final inventory are correctly registered.
E) Oil imports declined as countries exporting oil reduced supply.
Explanation:
Oil is extremely important for industrialized nations and since Euphrasia is a mixed open economy, we can assume that it is an industrialized nation. Oil has become the most important energy source for more than 60 years and is the raw material for manufacturing plastic.
During the 1970s and early 1980s the American economy was shattered by an increase in the price of foreign oil and a decrease in its domestic production levels. The importance of oil is also why so many modern wars have been fought over oil production and reserves.
The marginal rate of technical substitution (MRTS) can be described as the rate of a reduction is one factor to maintain the same production level when another factor is increased.
Given that labor is measured on the horizontal axis, the MRST of K for L can be calculated as follows:
Where;
MPK = Marginal product of capital = 2
MPL = Marginal product of labor = 8
Substituting the values into the equation, we have:
This implies that 0.25 of capital must be given up to have one unit of labor.