On January 1, JKR Shop had $510,000 of beginning inventory at cost. In the first quarter of the year, it purchased $1,650,000 of merchandise, returned $23,700, and paid freight charges of $38,200 on purchased merchandise, terms FOB shipping point. The company's gross profit averages 40%, and the store had $2,060,000 of net sales (at retail) in the first quarter of the year. Use the gross profit method to estimate its cost of inventory at the end of the first quarter.

Stormie zanzibar owns a bakery in the fictitious country of olombia. each month the government’s market ministry mails her a large list of the regulated price of goods which include products like bread, muffins and flat bread. the list also dictates the types of goods she can sell at the bakery and what she is to charge. because of the regulations placed on these goods, stormie has increased her production of sweets, pies, cakes, croissants and buns and decreased her supply of breads, muffins and flat bread. she has taken these steps because the sweet goods’ prices are not government controlled. stormie zanzibar lives under what type of economy?