As you may know, macy’s is in a battle with abercrombie & fitch for sales among 15- to 20-year-old female customers. we are relocating our junior department to the basement of our store to give young people a separate entrance and place to call their own. we want to beat abercrombie & fitch, and we’ll all need to work together to make that happen. do you think some kind of reward would be appropriate to motivate abigail? if so, what should it be? a. a choice of work assignments b. full tuition for a course of her choicec. a $200 bonus

On december 31, 2016, the decarreau, andrew, and bui partnership had the following fiscal year-end balance sheet: cash $10,000accounts receivable $20,000inventory $25,000plant assets - net $30,000loan to decarreau $18,000total assets $103,000accounts payable $14,000loan from bui $15,000decarreaua, capital (20%) $32,000andrew, capital (10%) $23,000bui, capital (70%) $19,000total liab./equity $103,000the percentages shown are the residual profit and loss sharing ratios. the partners dissolved the partnership on january 1, 2017, and began the liquidation process. during july the following events occurred: * receivables of $18,000 were collected.* all inventory was sold for $15,000.*all available cash was distributed on january 31, except for$8,000 that was set aside for contingent expenses.the book value of the partnership equity (i.e., total equity of the partners) on december 31, 2016 isa. $58,000b. $71,000c. $66,000d. $81,000