Voltac Corporation (a U. S. company located in Charlotte, North Carolina) has the following import/export transactions denominated in Mexican pesos in 2017:

March 1 Bought inventory costing 100,000 pesos on credit.
May 1 Sold 60 percent of the inventory for 80,000 pesos on credit.
August 1 Collected 70,000 pesos from customers.
September 1 Paid 60,000 pesos to suppliers.

Currency exchange rates for 1 peso for 2017 are as follows:

March 1 $0.10
May 1 0.12
August 1 0.13
September 1 0.14
December 31 0.15
For each of the following accounts, how much will Voltac report on its 2017 financial statements?

a. Inventory.
b. Cost of Goods Sold.
c. Sales.
d. Accounts Receivable.
e. Accounts Payable.
f. Cash.

Following is a list of various costs incurred in producing replacement automobile parts. with respect to the production and sale of these auto parts, classify each cost as either variable costs, fixed costs, or mixed costs. 1. oil used in manufacturing equipment 2. plastic 3. property taxes, $165,000 per year on factory building and equipment 4. salary of plant manager 5. cost of labor for hourly workers 6. packaging 7. factory cleaning costs, $6,000 per month 8. metal 9. rent on warehouse, $10,000 per month plus $25 per square foot of storage used 10. property insurance premiums, $3,600 per month plus $0.01 for each dollar of property over $1,200,000 11. straight-line depreciation on the production equipment 12. hourly wages of machine operators 13. electricity costs, $0.20 per kilowatt-hour 14. computer chip (purchased from a vendor) 15. pension cost, $1.00 per employee hour on the job

Which of the following statements is true of the balanced-scorecard? a. it is a more or less a one-dimensional metric of measuring competitive advantages of a firm. b. it is one of the traditional approaches of measuring firm performance. c. its primary focus is to base a firm's strategic goals entirely on external performance dimensions. d. it attempts to provide a holistic perspective on firm performance.

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.)