Northwest Fur Co. started 2021 with $95,000 of merchandise inventory on hand. During 2021, $440,000 in merchandise was purchased on account with credit terms of 3/15, n/45. All discounts were taken. Purchases were all made f. o.b. shipping point. Northwest paid freight charges of $9,100. Merchandise with an invoice amount of $3,800 was returned for credit. Cost of goods sold for the year was $365,000. Northwest uses a perpetual inventory system. Assuming Northwest uses the gross method to record purchases, what is the cost of goods available for sale?
A. $540,300.
B. $527,214.
C. $539,100.
D. $527,100.

Jimmy owns an ice cream parlor. he designs a schedule for the different tasks the employees have to perform in order to prevent monotony at work. according to the schedule, if an employee makes waffle cones on a day, he serves ice creams the next day and clears the tables on the day after that. jimmy is using the approach at his ice cream parlor.

He aldermanalderman company has prepared a sales budget of 42 comma 00042,000 finished units for a 3-month period. the company has an inventory of 10 comma 00010,000 units of finished goods on hand at december 31 and has a target finished goods inventory of 11 comma 00011,000 units at the end of the succeeding quarter. it takes 44 gallons of direct materials to make one unit of finished product. the company has inventory of 64 comma 00064,000 gallons of direct materials at december 31 and has a target ending inventory of 53 comma 00053,000 gallons at the end of the succeeding quarter. how many gallons of direct materials should aldermanalderman company purchase during the 3 months ending march 31? select the labels and enter the amounts to calculate the direct materials (gallons) to be purchased.

After the 2008 recession, the amount of reserves in the us banking system increased. because of federal reserve actions, required reserves increased from $44 billion to $60 billion. however, banks started holding more reserves than required. by january 2009, banks were holding $900 billion in excess reserves. the federal reserve started paying interest on the excess reserves that the banks held. what possible impact will these unused reserves have on the economy?