Pat Corporation acquired 80 percent of Smack Corporation's voting common stock on January 1, 20X7. On December 31, 20X8, Pat received $390,000 from Smack for equipment Pat had purchased on January 1, 20X5, for $400,000. The equipment is expected to have a 10-year useful life and no salvage value. Both companies depreciate equipment on a straight-line basis. Based on the preceding information, in the preparation of the 20x9 consolidated income statement, depreciation expense will be:

a. credited for $25,000 in the consolidating entries.
b. credited for $15,000 in the consolidating entries.
c. debited for $15,000 in the consolidating entries.
d. debited for $25,000 in the consolidating entries.

Alyssa works for an engineering firm that has been hired to design and supervise the construction of a highway bridge over a major river. the bridge will be a unique design, incorporating complex designs that will likely never be duplicated. how should alyssa deal with designing and overseeing the building of the bridge?

Which of the following statements regarding the learning curve and economies of scale is accurate? answers: just as diseconomies of scale are presumed to exist if a firm gets too large, there is a corresponding increase in costs in the learning-curve model as the cumulative volume of production grows.where diseconomies of scale are presumed to exist if a firm gets too large, there is no corresponding increase in costs in the learning-curve model as the cumulative volume of production grows.where diseconomies of scale are presumed to exist if a firm gets too small, there is no corresponding increase in costs in the learning-curve model as the cumulative volume of production grows.just as diseconomies of scale are presumed to exist if a firm gets too small, there is a corresponding increase in costs in the learning-curve model as the cumulative volume of production grows.

1. gar principles or "the principles"are intended to do what?