Suppose that your state is considering a law that would force all monopolies to charge no more than their average total costs (atc) of production. which of the following statements correctly explains to your legislator the pros and cons of this approach? instructions: you may select more than one answer. click the box with a check mark for correct answers and click to empty the box for the wrong answers. a. pro: this will reduce deadweight loss by increasing production quantity. b. unchecked con: the monopolist will have an incentive to overstate costs. c. unchecked pro: the monopolist will have an incentive to lower costs. d. unchecked con: consumer surplus is reduced as producers will increase production and increase price. e. unchecked pro: this will increase the profit earned by the monopolist. f. unchecked con: it is very hard to accurately determine what atc truly is. unchecked

On the first day of the fiscal year, a company issues an $7,500,000, 8%, five-year bond that pays semiannual interest of $300,000 ($7,500,000 × 8% × ½), receiving cash of $7,740,000. journalize the first interest payment and the amortization of the related bond premium. round to the nearest dollar. if an amount box does not require an entry, leave it blank.

Laurelton heating & cooling installs and services commercial heating and cooling systems. laurelton uses job costing to calculate the cost of its jobs. overhead is allocated to each job based on the number of direct labor hours spent on that job. at the beginning of the current year, laurelton estimated that its overhead for the coming year would be $ 61 comma 500. it also anticipated using 4 comma 100 direct labor hours for the year. in april comma laurelton started and completed the following two jobs: (click the icon to view the jobs.) laurelton paid a $ 20-per-hour wage rate to the employees who worked on these two jobs. read the requirements requirement 1. what is laurelton's predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor hours? determine the formula to calculate laurelton's predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor hours, then calculate the rate. / = predetermined overhead rate

)a business incurs the following costs per unit: labor $125/unit, materials $45/unit, and rent $250,000/month. if the firm produces 1,000,000 units a month, calculate the following: a. total variable costs b. total fixed costs c. total costs