Bmx company has one employee. fica social security taxes are 6.2% of the first $118,500 paid to its employee, and fica medicare taxes are 1.45% of gross pay. for bmx, its futa taxes are 0.6% and suta taxes are 2.9% of the first $7,000 paid to its employee. gross pay through august gross pay for septembera. $5,300 $2,600b. 19,000 2,900c. 113,000 8,800

assuming situation a, prepare the employer's september 30 journal entries to record salary expense and its related payroll liabilities for this employee.

the employee's federal income taxes withheld by the employer are $70 for this pay period. (round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

Rate of return douglas keel, a financial analyst for orange industries, wishes to estimate the rate of return for two similar-risk investments, x and y. douglas's research indicates that the immediate past returns will serve as reasonable estimates of future returns. a year earlier, investment x had a market value of $27 comma 000; and investment y had a market value of $46 comma 000. during the year, investment x generated cash flow of $2 comma 025 and investment y generated cash flow of $ 6 comma 770. the current market values of investments x and y are $28 comma 582 and $46 comma 000, respectively. a. calculate the expected rate of return on investments x and y using the most recent year's data. b. assuming that the two investments are equally risky, which one should douglas recommend? why?