Tom and Betsy, who are married filing jointly, reported a standard deduction of $24,000 on their 2018 tax return. They paid $500 to the state for income taxes in 2018. In 2019, they received a $125 refund of state taxes paid in 2018. What is the amount that Tom and Betsy need to report on their 2019 tax return?

Answer:

$0

Explanation:

Since Tom and Betsy didn't itemize their deductions in 2018 (they chose the standard deduction), they didn't include the state taxes in their tax filing. Since the state taxes were not used by Tom and Betsy to reduce their federal income taxes, then any refund will not be included in their current income. Only if state taxes are used to lower federal taxes, do taxpayers need to include any refund.

- Which of the following is NOT a Factor of Production
A. Money
B. Land
C. Labor
D. Capital

Bernie and Phil's Great American Surplus store placed an ad in the Sunday Times stating, "Next Saturday at 8:00 A.M. sharp 3 brand new mink coats worth $5,000 each will be sold for $500 each! First come, First served." Marsha LufMin was first in line when the store opened and went directly to the coat department, but the coats identified in the ad were not available for sale. She identified herself to the manager and pointed out that she was first in line in conformity with the store's advertised offer and that she was ready to pay the $500 price set forth in the store's offer. The manager responded that a newspaper ad is just an invitation to negotiate and that the store decided to withdraw "the mink coat promotion." Review the text on unilateral contracts in Section 12(b) of Chapter 12. Decide.

when pysical changes in materials happened, there is?

I. Formation of new product or material
II. No formation of new product or material
III. Formation of new shape
IV. Formation of new color

A. I, III and IV
B. II only
C. III and IV
D. II, III and IV

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Company sells a nature guide. The following information was reported for a typical month: Total Per Unit Sales $ 17,600 $ 16.00 Variable expenses 9,680 Contribution margin 7,920 Fixed expenses 3,600 Net operating income $ 4,320 What is Bear's current break-even point in unit and dollars

Minion, Inc., has no debt outstanding and a total market value of $211,875. Earnings before interest and taxes, EBIT, are projected to be $14,300 if economic conditions are normal. If there is strong expansion in the economy, then EBIT will be 20 percent higher. If there is a recession, then EBIT will be 35 percent lower. The company is considering a $33,900 debt issue with an interest rate of 6 percent. The proceeds will be used to repurchase shares of stock. There are currently 7,500 shares outstanding. Assume the company has a tax rate of 21 percent
a-1. Calculate earnings per share, EPS, under each of the three economic scenarios before any debt is issued. (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answers to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)
a- Calculate the percentage changes in EPS when the economy expands or enters a 2. recession. (A negative answer should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answers as a percent rounded to the nearest whole number, e.g., 32.)
b-1.Calculate earnings per share, EPS, under each of the three economic scenarios after the recapitalization. (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answers to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)
b- Calculate the percentage changes in EPS when the economy expands or enters a 2. recession assuming recapitalization has occurred.

At January 1, 2021, Cafe Med leased restaurant equipment from Crescent Corporation under a nine-year lease agreement. The lease agreement specifies annual payments of $29,000 beginning January 1, 2021, the beginning of the lease, and at each December 31 thereafter through 2028. The equipment was acquired recently by Crescent at a cost of $207,000 (its fair value) and was expected to have a useful life of 13 years with no salvage value at the end of its life. (Because the lease term is only 9 years, the asset does have an expected residual value at the end of the lease term of $94,113.) Crescent seeks a 12% return on its lease investments. By this arrangement, the lease is deemed to be an operating lease.

Required:
a. What will be the effect of the lease on Cafe Med's earnings for the first year (ignore taxes)?
b. What will be the balances in the balance sheet accounts related to the lease at the end of the first year for Café Med (ignore taxes)?

Demarco and Janine Jackson have been married for 20 years and have four children who qualify as their dependents (Damarcus, Janine, Michael, and Candice). The couple received salary income of $100,000 and qualified business income of $10,000 from an investment in a partnership, and they sold their home this year. They initially purchased the home three years ago for $200,000 and they sold it for $250,000. The gain on the sale qualified for the exclusion from the sale of a principal residence. The Jacksons incurred $16,500 of itemized deductions, and they had $3,550 withheld from their paychecks for federal taxes. They are also allowed to claim a child tax credit for each of their children. However, because Candice is 18 years of age, the Jacksons may only claim the child tax credit for other qualifying dependents for Candice. (Use the tax rate schedules.)
Comprehensive Problem 4-55 Parts-c through f
a. What would their taxable income be if their itemized deductions totaled $28,000 instead of $16,500?
b. What would their taxable income be if they had $0 itemized deductions and $6,000 of for AGI deductions?
c. Assume the original facts but now suppose the Jacksons also incurred a loss of $5,000 on the sale of some of their investment assets. What effect does the $5,000 loss have on their taxable income?

Bonita Beauty Corporation manufactures cosmetic products that are sold through a network of sales agents. The agents are paid a commission of 18% of sales. The income statement for the year ending December 31, 2014, is as follows.
BONITA BEAUTY CORPORATION
Income Statement For the Year Ended December 31, 2014
Sales $75,000,000
Cost of goods sold
Variable $31,500,000
Fixed 8,610,000 40,110,000
Gross margin $34,890,000
Selling and marketing expenses
Commissions $13,500,000
Fixed costs 10,260,000 23,760,000
Operating income $11,130,000
The company is considering hiring its own sales staff to replace the network of agents. It will pay its salespeople a commission of 8% and incur additional fixed costs of $7,500,000.
Under the current policy of using a network of sales agents, calculate the Bonita Beauty Corporation

Firms may not include all income taxes for a period on the line for income tax expense in the income statement. Other places that income tax expenses may occur include all of the following except: Select one: a. Extraordinary Items b. Other Comprehensive Income c. Common Stock d. Discontinued Operations

Learning design software, applying to college and creating a website to showcase work are examples of ______ that lead to a career as a graphic artist?

Which best explains why there are many job opportunities in the Lodging pathway?
O The pathway requires a college education.
O The pathway offers seasonal positions.
O The pathway includes low-paying jobs.
The pathway has a high turnover rate.

A company has total equity of $2,160, net working capital of $240, long-term debt of $1,070, and current liabilities of $4,500. What is the company's net fixed assets?

Payton Inc. reports in its Year 7 annual report, sales of $6,544 million and cost of goods sold of $2,618 million. For next year, you project that sales will grow by 3% and that cost of goods sold percentage will be 1 percentage point higher. Projected cost of goods sold for Year 8 will be:

Consider a second-price, sealed-bid auction with a seller who has one unit of the object which he values at s and two buyers 1, 2 who have values of v1 and v2 for the object. The values s, v1, v2 are all independent, private values. Suppose that both buyers know that the seller will submit his own sealed bid of s (and will keep the item if bid s wins), but they do not know the value of s. The buyers know that the seller must submit his bid before seeing the buyer’s bids and they know that the seller will actually run a second price auction with the three bids he has: his own bid and the two buyer’s bids. Each buyer knows his own value but not the other buyer’s value.

Now suppose that the seller opens the bids from the buyers and then submits his own bid after seeing the bids from the two buyers. The seller runs a second price auction with these bids in the sense that the object is awarded to the highests bidder (one of the two buyers or the seller) and that bidder pays the second highest bid. Now is it optimal for the buyers to bid truthfully; that is, should they each bid their true value? Give a brief explanation for your answer.

Martinez Corp. has the following beginning-of-the-year present values for its projected benefit obligation and market-related values for its pension plan assets.

Projected Benefit Obligation Plan Assets Value
2019 $2,340,000 $2,223,000
2020 2,808,000 2,925,000
2021 3,451,500 3,042,000
2022 4,212,000 3,510,000

The average remaining service life per employee in 2019 and 2020 is 10 years and in 2021 and 2022 is 12 years. The net gain or loss that occurred during each year is as follows:

2019, $327,600 loss; 2020, $105,300 loss; 2021, $12,870 loss; and 2022, $29,250 gain. (In working the solution, the gains and losses must be aggregated to arrive at year-end balances.)

Required:
Using the corridor approach, compute the amount of net gain or loss amortized and charged to pension expense in each of the four years, setting up an appropriate schedule.

Year Minimum Amortization of Loss
2013 $
2014 $
2015 $
2016 $

Question 7
5 pts
(03.02 MC)
Gina made a down payment on a motorcycle. What incentive did she have for making a down payment?
O A tax break
O A higher loan rate
O A less secure loan
O A reduced time in debt

what has the U.S customs created to force importing companies like wal-mart to provide more detailed information about

A deposit of $10,000 is made a year from now, a second deposit of $10,000 is made at the end of the year 5, and a deposit of $3000 is made at the end of year 8. The account earns 6% interest. You want to withdraw an equal amount, X at the end of each year for the next 10 years. What is the amount of X if the goal is to empty the account

Pham can work as many or as few hours as she wants at the college bookstore for $12 per hour. But due to her hectic schedule, she has just 15 hours per week that she can spend working at either the bookstore or other potential jobs. One potential job, at a café, will pay her $15 per hour for up to 6 hours per week. She has another job offer at a garage that will pay her $13 an hour for up to 5 hours per week. And she has a potential job at a daycare center that will pay her $11.50 per hour for as many hours as she can work.

If her goal is to maximize the amount of money she can make each week, how many hours will she work at the bookstore?

On September 1, 2019, Fast Track, Inc., was started with $25,000 invested by the owners as contributed capital. On September 30, 2019, the accounting records contained the following amounts:
Unearned revenue $ 500
Accounts payable 2,200
Prepaid expenses $ 1,000
Dividends declared 2,300
Accounts receivable 2,200
Office equipment 20,000
Accumulated depreciation 500
Office supplies 1,750
Cash 9,500
Office supplies expense 600
Consulting fees revenue 19,200
Rent expense 2,400
Contributed capital 25,000
Salary expense 6,900
Depreciation expense 500
Telephone expense 250
Required:
Prepare a classified income statement, a statement of retained earnings and a classified balance sheet for the first month of Fast Track’s operation.

Hector was prosecuted following police seizure of 80 pounds of drugs from his airplane. The seizure was held to be unlawful, the evidence was sup- pressed, and the suit against Hector was dismissed. He sued the government officials involved in his arrest and prosecution to recover $3,500 in bail bond expenses, $23,000 in attorney's fees, and $2,000 in travel costs. The district court held he could not recover the costs incurred during the criminal prosecution. Hector appealed. Can he recover the costs? (Hector v. Watt, 235 F.3d 154, 3rd Cir. (2000)]

1. Rosa Green estimates the cost of future projects for a large contracting firm. Rosa uses precisely the same techniques to estimate the costs of every potential job and formulates bids by adding a standard profit markup. For some companies, to which the firm offers its services, there are no competitors also seeking their business, so Rosa's company is almost certain to get these companies as clients. For these jobs, Rosa finds that her cost estimates are right, on average. For jobs where competitors are also vying for the business, Rosa finds that they almost always end up costing more than she estimates.

a. True
b. False

2. Rosa is less likely to win the jobs where she underestimates the costs, causing her to experience the winner's curse.

a. False
b. True

Robert needs his daily fix of coffee in the mid-afternoon and visits different coffee shops that will give him as much utility as possible, given his $20/month food budget. On Monday, the Blue Coffee Shop was selling espresso shots for $3 each and Robert added 3 shots to his cappuccino. By Friday, the Purple Coffee Shop offered espresso shots for $2 each, while all other prices remained the same, so Robert was bold and added 4 espresso shots to his hot beverage.

Required:
Given this information, plot Robert's demand curve for espresso shots.

Making Podcasts and Wikis Work for BusinessPodcasts and wikis are part of Web 2.0, which allows users of the web to create content. Prudent business use of Web 2.0 applications can help businesses build and maintain their reputations online. Understanding how to use Web 2.0 communication tools will be important when you are on the job.Businesses have embraced podcasting to broadcast (confidential/ legal/ repetitive?) information that doesn’t require interaction. For example, some companies use podcasts to broadcast HR policies that can be accessed on demand. What function can companies improve by using wikis for collaboration?A. Communication with investors.B. Project management.
C. Customer interaction.
Consider the scenario:You work on the marketing team for a software development company. You have sales representatives in different locations around the globe. When a product update is released, your team holds teleconferences to demo new features. Due to time differences, these demos are difficult to schedule and usually require multiple demo sessions to accommodate different geographic regions. You want to streamline the new product demos and decide to recommend an electronic communication tool to help facilitate this. Which electronic communication tool would you recommend?A. A podcast.B. A wiki.C. An e-mail.

Prepare a bank reconciliation as of October 31 from the following information:

a. The October 31 cash balance in the general ledger is $806.
b. The October 31 balance shown on the bank statement is $350.
c. Checks issued but not returned with the bank statement were No. 462 for $24 and No. 483 for $42.
d. A deposit made late on October 31 for $433 is included in the general ledger balance but not in the bank statement balance.
e. Returned with the bank statement was a notice that a customer's check for $80 that was deposited on October 25 had been returned because the customer's account was overdrawn.
f. During a review of the checks that were returned with the bank statement, it was noted that the amount of Check No. 471 was $65 but that in the company's records supporting the general ledger balance, the check had been erroneously recorded as a payment of an account payable in the amount of $56.

caculate the orithmetic mean of the number 42,56,38,41,86,
56​

Carmel Corporation is considering the purchase of a machine costing $38,000 with a 4-year useful life and no salvage value. Carmel uses straight-line depreciation and assumes that the annual cash inflow from the machine will be received uniformly throughout each year. In calculating the accounting rate of return, what is Carmel's average investment?

Tom Cruise Lines Inc. issued bonds five years ago at $1,000 per bond. These bonds had a 20-year life when issued and the annual interest payment was then 13 percent. This return was in line with the required returns by bondholders at that point as described below:
Real rate of return 4 %
Inflation premium 5
Risk premium 4
Total return 13 %
Assume that five years later the inflation premium is only 3 percent and is appropriately reflected in the required return (or yield to maturity) of the bonds. The bonds have 15 years remaining until maturity. Use Appendix B and Appendix D.

Who was the first missionary to arrive in Africa?​

Balance Sheet Data Income Statement Data
Cash $600,000 Accounts payable $720,000 Sales $12,000,000
Accounts receivable 1,200,000 Accruals 240,000 Cost of goods sold 7,200,000
Inventory 1,800,000 Notes payable 960,000 Gross profit 4,800,000
Current assets 3,600,000 Current liabilities 1,920,000 Operating expenses 3,000,000
Long-term debt 2,400,000 EBIT 1,800,000
Total liabilities 4,320,000 Interest expense 403,200
Common stock 720,000 EBT 1,396,800
Net fixed assets 3,600,000 Retained earnings 2,160,000 Taxes 488,880
Total equity 2,880,000 Net income $907,920
Total assets $7,200,000 Total debt and equity $7,200,000
If I remember correctly, the DuPont equation breaks down our ROE into three component ratios: the turnover ratio, and the the total asset And, according to my understanding of the DuPont equation and its calculation of ROE, the three ratios provide insights into the company's effectiveness in using the company's assets, and Hydra Cosmetics Inc. DuPont Analysis Ratios Value Correct/Incorrect Value Correct/Incorrect Ratios Asset management ratio Total assets turnover 1.67 Profitability ratios Gross profit margin (%) Operating profit margin (%) Net profit margin (%) Return on equity (%) 40.00 11.64 14.55 40.58 Financial ratios Equity multiplier 1.67 Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answers up to two decimals. Hydra Cosmetics Inc. DuPont Analysis Calculation Value Numerator Denominator Ratios Profitability ratios Gross profit margin (%) Operating profit margin (%) Net profit margin (%) Return on equity (%) Asset management ratio Total assets turnover Financial ratios Equity multiplier Check all that apply. Reduce the company's operating expenses, its cost of goods sold, and/or the interest rate on its borrowed funds because this will increase the company's net profit margin. Increase the cost and amount of assets necessary to generate each dollar of sales because it will increase the company's total assets turnover. Increase the efficiency of its assets so that it generates more sales with each dollar of asset investment and increases the company's total assets turnover. Increase the interest rate on its notes payable or long-term debt obligations because it will reduce the company's net profit margin.