On November 3rd of this year, Kerry acquired and placed into service 7-year business equipment costing $80,000. In addition, on May 5th of this year, Kerry had also placed in business use 5-year recovery property costing $15,000. Kerry did not apply Sec. 179 immediate expensing or bonus depreciation. No other assets were purchased during the year. The depreciation for this year is

As a general rule, when accountants calculate profit they account for explicit costs but usually ignorea. certain outlays of money by the firm. b. implicit costs. c. operating costs. d. fixed costs.

Activity-based costing (abc) is not truly a cost collection mechanism as much as it is an inventory valuation method. the main purpose for implementing an activity-based cost system is to try to overcome some of the cost distortions that occur in traditional costing from product differences when there are variations in size and complexity. however, one of the disadvantages of utilizing abc is that the additional information gathering necessary to implement costing with that level of detail might be beyond the reach of some companies with resource or financial constraints. with this in mind, what kinds of industries or companies do you think would benefit most from using activity-based costing and why? in designing or modifying an accounting system to capture appropriate costs for abc, what considerations do you think would need to be made?

The director of the federal trade commission (ftc) bureau of consumer protection warned that the agency would bring enforcement action against small businesses that select one: a. failed to inform the public about network failures in a timely manner b. failed to transmit sensitive data c. did not report security breaches to law enforcement d. lacked adequate policies and procedures to protect consumer data.