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Problem 4 Name: Type your name here Problem 4 worth 15 pts. Save your file using your first initial, last name, and name of problem. Due by Tuesday, May 8th 11:59 pm Central time. This problem covers material in chapter 9 and I have extensive budget demonstrations in the chapter 9 course documents folder. I […]

An employee earns $6,050 per month working for an employer. The FICA tax rate for Social Security is 6.2% and the FICA tax rate for Medicare is 1.45%. The current FUTA tax rate is .8%, and the SUTA tax rate is 5.4%. Both unemployment taxes are applied to the first $7,000 of an employee’s pay. […]

ACCOUNTING PROBLEMS NEEDED BY 5/15/12 1. Seattle health Plans currently uses zero-debt financing. Its operating income (EBIT) is $1 million and it pays taxes at a 40% rate. It has $5 million in assets and because it is all-equity financed, $5 million in equity. Suppose the firm is considering replacing half of its equity financing […]

Kimberly Fahringer Chapter 9 and 10 questions 1. Create a parable (in the vein of Bastiat’s parable) that would help someone unfamiliar with finance understanding the following concepts: opportunity cost concept, Be sure to address a concept other than opportunity cost. This may include compounding, discounting, annuity payments and perpetuity. 2. Analyze the steps involved […]

Kimberly Fahringer Chapter 9 and 10 questions 1. Create a parable (in the vein of Bastiat’s parable) that would help someone unfamiliar with finance understanding the following concepts: opportunity cost concept, Be sure to address a concept other than opportunity cost. This may include compounding, discounting, annuity payments and perpetuity. 2. Analyze the steps involved […]

FIRST SET OF PROBLEMS: PROBLEM 1 Assume Venture Healthcare sold bonds that have a 10 year maturity, a 12 percent coupon rate with annual payments, and a $1,000 par value. Suppose that two years after the bonds were issued the required interest rate fell to 7%. a. What would be the bond’s value? b. Suppose […]

A mixture of pulverized fuel ash and Portland cement to be used for grouting should have a compressive strength of more than 1300 KN/m2. The mixture will not be used unless experimental evidence indicates conclusively that the strength specification has been met. Suppose compressive strength for specimens of this mixture is normally distributed with σ […]

First National Bank’s president congradulates you on quickly solving the problem. She then shares the information that she’s about to make an offer to buy Monroe’s other bank, Metropolitan Savings. She’s worried that the two banks’ networks won’t integrate easily. She isn’t sure what kinds of servers or workstations are used by the other bank, […]

“Gift of the Magi” Choose the best multiple-choice answers for the following questions about the short story “Gift of the Magi.” 7. What is ironic about “The Gift of the Magi”? Della thinks she looks like a Coney Island chorus girl with her short hair. Della and Jim sacrifice greatly in order to buy gifts […]

Bluesky Systems is a software development company that builds software components for a variety of private and government clients. Their current infrastructure is outdated and has been prone to being attacked by hackers that have exploited vulnerabilities in their current DNS causing serious down time. In the last 4 years Bluesky has had to recover […]