A firm is trying to determine what wage it needs to offer in order to attract qualified applicants when hiring several new employees. The firm has collected the following data on the supply of labor and estimates the number of applications it would receive as well as the number of employees it would like to hire at each wage. Wage Number of Qualified Job Applicants Number of Employees Firm Would Hire $20,000 10 10 $25,000 12 9 $30,000 18 8 $35,000 21 7 $40,000 27 6 $45,000 30 5 $50,000 36 4 $55,000 45 3 $60,000 50 2 The firm wants to pay as little as possible and still get a minimum of two applicants for each person it actually hires. Which wage should the firm offer based on this data?

You decided to charge $100 for your new computer game, but people are not buying it. what could you do to encourage people to buy your game?

Martinez company has the following two temporary differences between its income tax expense and income taxes payable. 2017 2018 2019 pretax financial income $873,000 $866,000 $947,000 (2017' 2018, 2019) excess depreciation expense on tax return (29,400 ) (39,000 ) (9,600 ) (2017' 2018, 2019) excess warranty expense in financial income 20,000 9,900 8,300 (2017' 2018, 2019) taxable income $863,600 $836,900 $945,700(2017' 2018, 2019) the income tax rate for all years is 40%. instructions: a. prepare the journal entry to record income tax expense, deferred income taxes, and income taxes payable for 2017, 2018, and 2019. b. assuming there were no temporary differences prior to 2016, indicate how deferred taxes will be reported on the 2016 balance sheet. button's warranty is for 12 months. c. prepare the income tax expense section of the income statement for 2017, beginning with the line, "pretax financial income."

Awork system has five stations that have process times of 5, 9, 4, 9, and 8. what is the throughput time of the system? a. 7b. 4c. 18d. 35e. 9