On January 1, year 8 Banks Co. purchased a machine for $500,000 which it intends to use manufacturing one specific product, with production slated to begin October 1, year 8. The machine has no expected salvage value at the end of its 8-year useful life. To best represent the machine’s pattern of use, Banks elects the units of production method for depreciating it. At the time of purchase, expected production was 10,000 units for year 8 and 90,000 units in later years. At December 31, year 8, actual production has been 7,000 units and Banks expects to produce 113,000 more units in later years. What amount of depreciation expense should Banks report for the machine on its income statement for the year ending December 31, year 8?

The textbook defines ethics as “the principles of conduct governing an individual or a group,” and specifically as the standards one uses to decide what their conduct should be. to what extent do you believe that what happened at bp (british petrolium) is as much a breakdown in the company’s ethical systems as it is in its safety systems, and how would you defend your conclusion?

In which job role will you be creating e-papers, newsletters, and periodicals?

Aproduction line has three machines a, b, and c, with reliabilities of .96, .86, and .85, respectively. the machines are arranged so that if one breaks down, the others must shut down. engineers are weighing two alternative designs for increasing the line’s reliability. plan 1 involves adding an identical backup line, and plan 2 involves providing a backup for each machine. in either case, three machines (a, b, and c) would be used with reliabilities equal to the original three. a. compute overall system reliability under plan 1. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability b. compute overall system reliability under plan 2. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability c. which plan will provide the higher reliability? plan2plan1