Techgear, Inc., manufactures specialty suits for triathletes. For the month of January, it projects the following selling and administrative expenses: sales commissions, 4% of sales; shipping expense, $4,500; advertising and marketing costs payable next month, $12,000; electric and water utilities, $750; corporate office depreciation for computers, $8,800; bad debt expense, $8,000. Sales for the month of January equal $400,000. What is the total of expenses that will be reported on the budgeted income statement

Wo firms, a and b, each currently dump 50 tons of chemicals into the local river. the government has decided to reduce the pollution and from now on will require a pollution permit for each ton of pollution dumped into the river. it costs firm a $100 for each ton of pollution that it eliminates before it reaches the river, and it costs firm b $50 for each ton of pollution that it eliminates before it reaches the river. the government gives each firm 20 pollution permits. government officials are not sure whether to allow the firms to buy or sell the pollution permits to each other. what is the total cost of reducing pollution if firms are not allowed to buy and sell pollution permits from each other? what is the total cost of reducing pollution if the firms are allowed to buy and sell permits from each other? a. $3,000; $1,500 b. $4,500; $3,500 c. $4,500; $4,000 d. $4,500; $2,500