Grand River Corporation reported taxable income of $550,000 in 20X3 and paid federal income taxes of $192,500. Not included in the computation was a disallowed meals and entertainment expense of $3,000, tax-exempt income of $2,000, and deferred gain on a current-year transaction treated as an installment sale of $30,000. The corporation's current earnings and profits for 20X3 would be:

)a business incurs the following costs per unit: labor $125/unit, materials $45/unit, and rent $250,000/month. if the firm produces 1,000,000 units a month, calculate the following: a. total variable costs b. total fixed costs c. total costs

Garrett is an executive vice president at samm hardware. he researches a proposal by a larger company, maximum hardware, to combine the two companies. by analyzing past performance, conducting focus groups, and interviewing maximum employees, garrett concludes that maximum has poor profit margins, sells shoddy merchandise, and treats customers poorly. what actions should garrett and samm hardware take? a. turn down the acquisition offer and prepare to resist a hostile takeover. b. attempt a friendly merger and use managerial hubris to improve results at maximum. c. welcome the acquisition and use knowledge transfer to impart sam hardware's management practices. d. do nothing; the two companies cannot combine without samm hardware's explicit consent.

Providing a great shopping experience to customers is one of the important objectives of purple fashions inc., a clothing store. to achieve this objective, the company has a team of committed customer service professionals whose job is to ensure that customers get exactly what they want. this scenario illustrates that purple fashions is trying to achieve