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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.

The purchasing agent for a company that assembles and sells air-conditioning equipment in a latin american country noted that the cost of compressors has increased significantly each time they have been reordered. the company uses an eoq model to determine order size. what are the implications of this price escalation with respect to order size? what factors other than price must be taken into consideration?

Abc factory produces 24,000 units. the cost sheet gives the following information: direct materials rs. 1,20,000direct labour rs. 84,000variable overheads rs. 48,000semi variable overheads rs. 28,000fixed overheads rs. 80,000total cost rs. 3,60,000presently the product is sold at rs. 20 per unit.the management proposes to increase the production by 3,000 units for sales in the foreign market . it is estimated that semi variable overheads will increase by rs. 1,000. but the product will be sold at rs. 14 per unit in the foreign market. however, no additional capital expenditure will be incurredq-1. what is present profit of the company ? q-2. what is proposed profit of the company in new market? q-3.what is suggestion for new makret proposal whether proposal accept or not