Levi Strauss and Wrangler are planning new generation jeans and must decide on the colors for their products. The possible colors are white, black, and violet. The payoff to each firm depends on the color it chooses and the color chosen by its rival, as the profit matrix shows. Suppose the firms move sequentially, with Wrangler moving first. Levi Strauss engages in pre-play communication (cheap talk). Levi Strauss tells Wrangler that it will match Wrangler's color choice if Wrangler chooses black and violet but that if Wrangler opts for white, Levi Strauss will choose Violet. Why would Levi Strauss want Wrangler to believe this claim? Levi Strauss would want Wrangler to believe this claim so that Levi Strauss could receive a payoff of $ nothing. (Enter your response as a whole number.)

Melissa is a very generous single woman. before this year, she had given over $11,400,000 in taxable gifts over the years and has completely exhausted her applicable credit amount. in the current year, melissa gave her daughter riley $100,000 and promptly filed her gift tax return. melissa did not make any other gifts this year. how much gift tax must riley pay the irs because of this transaction?

Hubert manages a grocery store in a country experiencing a high rate of inflation. to keep up with inflation, he spends a lot of time every day updating the prices, printing new price tags, and sending out newspaper inserts advertising the new prices. his employees regularly deal with customer annoyance over the frequent price changes. this is an example of the of inflation.

Vortex company operates a retail store with two departments. information about those departments follows. department a department b sales $ 800,000 $ 450,000 cost of goods sold 497,000 291,000 direct expenses salaries 125,000 88,000 insurance 20,000 10,000 utilities 24,000 14,000 depreciation 21,000 12,000 maintenance 7,000 5,000 the company also incurred the following indirect costs. salaries $36,000 insurance 6,000 depreciation 15,000 office expenses 50,000 indirect costs are allocated as follows: salaries on the basis of sales; insurance and depreciation on the basis of square footage; and office expenses on the basis of number of employees. additional information about the departments follows. department square footage number of employees a 28,000 75 b 12,000 50 required: 1. determine the departmental contribution to overhead and the departmental net income for department a and department b.