The balance sheet of Alpha, Inc., a world leader in the design and sale of telescopic equipment, reported the following information on its balance sheets for 2021 and 2020 (figures are in thousands): LOADING...(Click the icon to view the partial balance sheet.) LOADING...(Click the icon to view additional information.) Read the requirementsLOADING Requirement 1. Calculate the amount of uncollectible accounts expense recorded by Alpha in 2021. Select the labels, enter the amounts and calculate the uncollectible accounts expense. (Enter amounts in thousands of dollars as provided to you in the problem statement. Abbreviations used: AFUA, Beg Bal = Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts, Beginning Balance; AFUA, End Bal = Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts, Ending Balance.) + - = Uncollectible-Accounts Exp. + - =

If temper company, a manufacturer of mattresses, was considering moving its production facilities to china but decided against it because the additional costs of shipping the mattresses back to the u.s. would offset the cost savings associated with moving the production facilities, the increased costs associated with shipping would be an example ofanswers: learning-curve economies.diseconomies of scale.economies of scale.competitive advantages.

The amberssen specialty company is a chain of twelve retail stores that sell a variety of imported gift items, gourmet chocolates, cheeses, and wines in the toronto area. amberssen has an is staff of three people who have created a simple but effective information system of networked point-of-sale registers at the stores and a centralized accounting system at the company head- quarters. harry hilman, the head of amberssens is group, has just received the following memo from bill amberssen, sales director (and son of amberssen’s founder). harry—it’s time amberssen specialty launched itself on the internet. many of our competitors are already there, selling to customers without the expense of a retail storefront, and we should be there too. i project that we could double or triple our annual revenues by selling our products on the internet. i’d like to have this ready by - giving, in time for the prime holiday gift-shopping season. bill after pondering this memo for several days, harry scheduled a meeting with bill so that he could clarify bill’s vision of this venture. using the standard con- tent of a system request as your guide, prepare a list of questions that harry needs to have answered about this project.

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?