Sam operates a small chain of pizza outlets in Fort Collins, Colorado. In November of this year, Sam decided to attend a two-day management training course in Los Angeles. Sam took an eight-day vacation immediately after the course. Sam reported the following expenditures from the trip: Course Tuition $ 3,050 Airfare 990 Hotel (total expense of 10 nights) 3,100 Rental car (total expense of 10 days) 710 Meals (total expense of 10 days) 3,400 What amount of travel expenditures can Sam deduct

Suppose that two firms produce differentiated products and compete in prices. as in class, the two firms are located at two ends of a line one mile apart. consumers are evenly distributed along the line. the firms have identical marginal cost, $60. firm b produces a product with value $110 to consumers. firm a (located at 0 on the unit line) produces a higher quality product with value $120 to consumers. the cost of travel are directly related to the distance a consumer travels to purchase a good. if a consumerhas to travel a mile to purchase a good, the incur a cost of $20. if they have to travel x fraction of a mile, they incur a cost of $20x. (a) write down the expressions for how much a consumer at location d would value the products sold by firms a and b, if they set prices p_{a} and p_{b} ? (b) based on your expressions in (a), how much will be demanded from each firm if prices p_{a} and p_{b} are set? (c) what are the nash equilibrium prices?

Presented below is information for annie company for the month of march 2018. cost of goods sold $245,000 rent expense $ 36,000 freight-out 7,000 sales discounts 8,000 insurance expense 5,000 sales returns and allowances 11,000 salaries and wages expense 63,000 sales revenue 410,000 instructions prepare the income statement.

Google started as one of many internet search engines, amazon started as an online book seller, and ebay began as a site where people could sell used personal items in auctions. these firms have grown to be so large and dominant that they are facing antitrust scrutiny from competition regulators in the us and elsewhere. did these online giants grow by fairly beating competition, or did they use unfair advantages? are there any clouds on the horizon for these firms -- could they face diseconomies of scale or diseconomies of scope as they continue to grow? if so, what factors may limit their continued growth?