The following book and fair values were available for westmont company as of march 1. book value fair value inventory $ 281,500 $ 250,000 land 805,500 1,112,250 buildings 2,070,000 2,416,500 customer relationships 0 870,000 accounts payable (82,500 ) (82,500 ) common stock (2,000,000 ) additional paid-in capital (500,000 ) retained earnings 1/1 (421,500 ) revenues (446,000 ) expenses 293,000 arturo company pays $3,960,000 cash and issues 29,500 shares of its $2 par value common stock (fair value of $50 per share) for all of westmont’s common stock in a merger, after which westmont will cease to exist as a separate entity. stock issue costs amount to $29,400 and arturo pays $50,000 for legal fees to complete the transaction. prepare arturo’s journal entry to record its acquisition of westmont

howard, fine, & howard is an advertising agency. the firm uses an activity-based costing system to allocate overhead costs to its services. information about the firm's activity cost pool rates follows: stooge company was a client of howard, fine, & howard. recently, 7 administrative assistant hours, 3 new ad campaigns, and 8 meeting hours were incurred for the stooge company account. using the activity-based costing system, how much overhead cost would be allocated to the stooge company account?

With signals from no-claim bonuses and deductibles, a. the marginal cost curve for careful drivers lies to the left of the marginal cost curve for aggressive drivers b. auto insurance companies insure more aggressive drivers than careful drivers because aggressive drivers have a greater need for the insurance c. the market for car insurance has a separating equilibrium, and the market is efficient d. most drivers pay higher premiums than if the market had no signals

6. why the aggregate supply curve slopes upward in the short run in the short run, the quantity of output that firms supply can deviate from the natural level of output if the actual price level in the economy deviates from the expected price level. several theories explain how this might happen. for example, the misperceptions theory asserts that changes in the price level can temporarily mislead firms about what is happening to their output prices. consider a soybean farmer who expects a price level of 100 in the coming year. if the actual price level turns out to be 90, soybean prices will , and if the farmer mistakenly assumes that the price of soybeans declined relative to other prices of goods and services, she will respond by the quantity of soybeans supplied. if other producers in this economy mistake changes in the price level for changes in their relative prices, the unexpected decrease in the price level causes the quantity of output supplied to the natural level of output in the short run.