Alvarado Company purchased a new machine for $400,000. It is estimated that the machine will have a $40,000 salvage value at the end of its 5-year useful service life. The double-declining-balance method of depreciation will be used. Prepare a depreciation schedule which shows the annual depreciation expense on the machine for its 5-year life. End of Year Year Book Value Beginning of Year Annual Depreciation Expense Accumulated Depreciation Book Value End of Year

Suppose general motors demands labor according to the labor demand function 푤푤= 40−0. 5퐸퐸, where 푤푤 is the hourly wage and 퐸퐸 is the number of employees. the united auto workers union has a utility function given by 푈푈=푊푊∗퐸퐸. a. in 1984, the united auto workers union started negotiations with general motors by assuming that they were a monopoly union. find the wage and employment demands that the united auto workers union would have demanded before any bargaining began. b. if general motors and the united auto workers union both had excellent bargaining representatives, would this be the final labor contract? if not, then explain in words and graphically where they would end up after the bargaining process.