Barkley Corporation received the following report from its actuary at the end of the year: December 31, 2007 December 31, 2008 Projected benefit obligation $1,600,000 $1,800,000 Market-related asset value 1,400,000 1,420,000 Accumulated benefit obligation 1,300,000 1,480,000 Fair value of pension plan assets 1,380,000 1,440,000 Prepaid pension cost 80,000 100,000 Assume that no prepaid or accrued pension cost exists on January 1, 2007. 11. The amount reported as the total pension liability at December 31, 2007 is a. $ -0-. b. $200,000. c. $220,000. d. $300,000.

The amberssen specialty company is a chain of twelve retail stores that sell a variety of imported gift items, gourmet chocolates, cheeses, and wines in the toronto area. amberssen has an is staff of three people who have created a simple but effective information system of networked point-of-sale registers at the stores and a centralized accounting system at the company head- quarters. harry hilman, the head of amberssens is group, has just received the following memo from bill amberssen, sales director (and son of amberssen’s founder). harry—it’s time amberssen specialty launched itself on the internet. many of our competitors are already there, selling to customers without the expense of a retail storefront, and we should be there too. i project that we could double or triple our annual revenues by selling our products on the internet. i’d like to have this ready by - giving, in time for the prime holiday gift-shopping season. bill after pondering this memo for several days, harry scheduled a meeting with bill so that he could clarify bill’s vision of this venture. using the standard con- tent of a system request as your guide, prepare a list of questions that harry needs to have answered about this project.

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The 39 percent and 38 percent tax rates both represent what is called a tax "bubble." suppose the government wanted to lower the upper threshold of the 39 percent marginal tax bracket from $335,000 to $208,000. what would the new 39 percent bubble rate have to be? (do not round intermediate calculations. enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places,e.g., 32.16.)