Suppose the following transactions take place: (1) A U. S. book publisher sells $20,000 of books to a Chinese firm. The firm pays for the books by using its Chinese-based credit card company.; (2) Vlad, a Russian citizen working in New York, earned $6,000 last year working at a factory owned by a U. S pany, and (3) BNP Paribas (a French bank) has just purchased 20% of outstanding stock in First Commercial Bank (U. S.) for $200,000 million from Warren Buffet (a U. S. citizen). Buffet takes the check and puts it in his U. S. bank account. Assuming we started with a trade deficit of zero. What will these transactions do to our trade deficit

The chromosome manufacturing company produces two products, x and y. the company president, jean mutation, is concerned about the fierce competition in the market for product x. she notes that competitors are selling x for a price well below chromosome's price of $13.50. at the same time, she notes that competitors are pricing product y almost twice as high as chromosome's price of $12.50.ms. mutation has obtained the following data for a recent time period: product x product y number of units 11,000 3,000 direct materials cost per unit $3.23 $3.09 direct labor cost per unit $2.22 $2.10 direct labor hours 10,000 3,500 machine hours 2,100 1,800 inspection hours 80 100 purchase orders 10 30ms. mutation has learned that overhead costs are assigned to products on the basis of direct labor hours. the overhead costs for this time period consisted of the following items: overhead cost item amount inspection costs $16,200 purchasing costs 8,000 machine costs 49,000 total $73,200using direct labor hours to allocate overhead costs determine the gross margin per unit for product x. choose the best answer from the list below. a. $1.93b. $3.12c. $7.38d. $2.43e. $1.73using activity-based costing for overhead allocation, determine the gross margin per unit for product y. choose best answer from list below. a. $10.07b. ($2.27)c. ($5.23)d. ($7.02)e. $7.02