Smith & Sons obtained a patent for a new optical scanning device. The fees incurred to file for the patent and to defend the patent in court against several companies which challenged the patent amounted to $45,000. Smith & Sons concluded that the expected economic life of the patent was 12 years. Calculate the amortization expense that should be recorded in the second year, and record the journal entry for the amortization expense on the books of Smith & Sons. $

Costco wholesale corporation operates membership warehouses selling food, appliances, consumer electronics, apparel and other household goods at 471 locations across the u.s. as well as in canada, mexico and puerto rico. as of its fiscal year-end 2005, costco had approximately 21.2 million members. selected fiscal-year information from the company's balance sheets follows. ($ millions). selected balance sheet data 2005 2004 merchandise inventories $4,015 $3,644 deferred membership income (liability) 501 454 (a) during fiscal 2005, costco collected $1,120 cash for membership fees. use the financial statement effectstemplate to record the cash collected for membership fees. (b) in 2005, costco recorded $46,347 million in merchandise costs (that is, cost of goods sold). record thistransaction in the financial statement effects template. (c) determine the value of merchandise that costco purchased during fiscal-year 2005. use the financial statementeffects template to record these merchandise purchases. assume all of costco's purchases are on credit.

Large public water and sewer companies often become monopolies because they benefit from although the company faces high start-up costs, the firm experiences average production costs as it expands and adds more customers. smaller competitors would experience average costs and would be less

Win goods inc. is a large multinational conglomerate. as a single business unit, the company's stock price is estimated to be $200. however, by adding the actual market stock prices of each of its individual business units, the stock price of the company as one unit would be $300. what is win goods experiencing in this scenario? a. diversification discount b. learning-curveeffects c. experience-curveeffects d. economies of scale