Perfect parties, inc. has several divisions, one of which provides birthday parties at their facility, and has provided the actual and planning budget results for the month of june. the controller has asked you prepare the birthday party division budget performance report. use the information included in the excel simulation and the excel functions described below to complete the task.

Your grandmother told you a dollar doesn't go as far as it used to. she says the purchasing power of a dollar is much lesser than it used to be. explain what she means. try and use and explain terms like inflation and deflation in your answer.

In 2015, lori assigned a paid-up whole life insurance policy to an irrevocable life insurance trust (ilit) for the benefit of her three children. the ilit contained a crummey provision for the benefit of each child. at the time of the transfer, the whole life insurance policy was valued at $200,000, and since lori had not made any other taxable gifts during her lifetime, she did not owe any gift tax. lori died in 2016, and the face value of the whole life insurance policy of $2,000,000 was paid to the ilit. regarding this transfer, how much is included in lori’s gross estate at her death?

What is one counter argument to the premise that the wealth gap is a serious problem which needs to be addressed?