A rancher raises alpaca. Once a year, he shears them and sells the raw wool to a processor who spins it into yarn. The yarn is then sold to a mill which produces and sells alpaca sweaters. In calculating GDP we would count

Njuly, noel & vang company purchased materials costing $23,100 and incurred direct labor cost of $19,800. manufacturing overhead totaled $35,200 for the month. information on inventories was as follows: july 1 july 31 materials $6,820 $7,810 work in process 770 1,320 finished goods 3,630 2,970 what was the cost of goods sold for july? a. $71,300 b. $71,100 c. $69,600 d. $77,220

Who is better at multi-tasking? in business, employees are often asked to perform a complex task when their atten-tion is divided (i.e., multi-tasking). human factors (may 2014) published a study designed to determine whether video game players are better than non–video game play-ers at multi-tasking. each in a sample of 60 college stu-dents was classified as a video game player or a non-player. participants entered a street crossing simulator and were asked to cross a busy street at an unsigned intersec-tion. the simulator was designed to have cars traveling at various high rates of speed in both directions. during the crossing, the students also performed a memory task as a distraction. two variables were measured for each student: (1) a street crossing performance score (measured out of 100 points) and (2) a memory task score (measured out of 20 points). the researchers found no differences in either the street crossing performance or memory task score of video game players and non-gamers. “these results,” say the researchers, “suggest that action video game players [and non-gamers] are equally susceptible to the costs of dividing attention in a complex task”

You are an employee of an u.s. firm that produces personal computers in thailand and then exports them to the united states and other countries for sale. the personal computers were originally produced in thailand to take advantage of relatively low labor costs and a skilled workforce. other possible locations considered at that time were malaysia and hong kong. the u.s. government decides to impose punitive 100% ad valorem tariffs on imports of computers from thailand to punish the country for administrative trade barriers that restrict u.s. exports to thailand. how do you think your firm should respond? what does this tell you about the use of targeted trade barriers?