Becky’s comprehensive major medical health insurance plan at work has a deductible of $730. the policy pays 80 percent of any amount above the deductible. while on a hiking trip, becky contracted a rare bacterial disease. her medical costs for treatment, including medicines, tests, and a seven-day hospital stay, totaled $9,233. a friend told her that she would have paid less if she had a policy with a stop-loss feature that capped her out-of-pocket expenses at $4,700.

a.

calculate the total amount becky would pay under the current policy. (do not round intermediate calculations. round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

becky's co-insurance cost $

deductible $

total personal cost $

b.

would a $4,700 stop-loss provision on her current policy have reduced becky's cost for this illness?

Russell's is considering purchasing $697,400 of equipment for a four-year project. the equipment falls in the five-year macrs class with annual percentages of .2, .32, .192, .1152, .1152, and .0576 for years 1 to 6, respectively. at the end of the project the equipment can be sold for an estimated $135,000. the required return is 13.2 percent and the tax rate is 23 percent. what is the amount of the aftertax salvage value of the equipment assuming no bonus depreciation is taken

1. alwaysrain irrigation, inc. would like to determine capacity requirements for the next four years. currently, two production lines are in place for making bronze and plastic sprinklers. three types of sprinklers are available in both bronze and plastic: 90-degree nozzle sprinklers, 180-degree nozzle sprinklers, and 360-degree nozzle sprinklers. management has forecast demand for the next four years as follows: both production lines can produce all the different types of nozzles. the bronze machines needed for the bronze sprinklers require two operators and can produce up to 12,000 sprinklers. the plastic injection molding machine needed for the plastic sprinklers requires four operators and can produce up to 200,000 sprinklers. three bronze machines and only one injection molding machine are available. what are the capacity requirements for the next four years? (assume that there is no learning.)

The biweekly taxable wages for the employees of rite shop follow. compute the fica taxes for each employee and the employers fica taxes