Mustang Auto Parts, Inc. is considering one of two forklift trucks for its assembly plant.

1. Truck A costs $15,000 and requires $3,000 annually in operating expenses. It will have a $5,000 salvage value at the end of its three-year service life.
2. Truck B costs $20,000, but requires only $2,000 annually in operating expenses; its service life is four years, at which time its expected salvage value will be $8,000.

The firm's MARR is 12%. Assuming that the trucks are needed for 12 years and that no significant changes are expected in the future price and functional capacity of each truck, select the most economical truck on the basis of AE analysis.

Acompany manufactures hair dryers. it buys some of the components, but it makes the heating element, which it can produce at the rate of 920 per day. hair dryers are assembled daily, 250 days a year, at a rate of 360 per day. because of the disparity between the production and usage rates, the heating elements are periodically produced in batches of 2,300 units. a. approximately how many batches of heating elements are produced annually? b. if production on a batch begins when there is no inventory of heating elements on hand, how much inventory will be on hand 4 days later? c. what is the average inventory of elements, assuming each production cycle begins when there are none on hand?

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Johnson company uses the allowance method to account for uncollectible accounts receivable. bad debt expense is established as a percentage of credit sales. for 2018, net credit sales totaled $6,400,000, and the estimated bad debt percentage is 1.40%. the allowance for uncollectible accounts had a credit balance of $61,000 at the beginning of 2018 and $49,500, after adjusting entries, at the end of 2018.required: 1. what is bad debt expense for 2018 as a percent of net credit sales? 2. assume johnson makes no other adjustment of bad debt expense during 2018. determine the amount of accounts receivable written off during 2018.3. if the company uses the direct write-off method, what would bad debt expense be for 2018?