Henrietta, the owner of a very successful hotel chain in the southeast, is exploring the possibility of expanding the chain into a city in the northeast. she incurs $49,500 of expenses associated with this investigation. based on the regulatory environment for hotels in the city, she decides not to expand. during the year, she also investigates opening a restaurant that will be part of a national restaurant chain. her expenses for this are $50,000. she proceeds with opening the restaurant, and it begins operations on may 1. determine the amount that henrietta can deduct in the current year for investigating these two businesses.

Ajustification for job training programs is that they improve worker productivity. suppose that you are asked to evaluate whether more job training makes workers more productive. however, rather than having data on individual workers, you have access to data on manufacturing firms in ohio. in particu- lar, for each firm, you have information on hours of job training per worker (training) and number of nondefective items produced per worker hour (output). (i) carefully state the ceteris paribus thought experiment underlying this policy question. (ii) does it seem likely that a firm’s decision to train its workers will be independent of worker characteristics? what are some of those measurable and unmeasurable worker characteristics? (iii) name a factor other than worker characteristics that can affect worker productivity. (iv) if you find a positive correlation between output and training, would you have convincingly established that job training makes workers more productive? explain.

Acompany using the perpetual inventory system purchased inventory worth $540,000 on account with credit terms of 2/15, n/45. defective inventory of $40,000 was returned 2 days later, and the accounts were appropriately adjusted. if the company paid the invoice 20 days later, the journal entry to record the payment would be

Which of the following does not offer an opportunity for timely content? evergreen content news alerts content that suits seasonal consumption patterns content that matches a situational trigger content that addresses urgent pain points