Books and brew (bb) is a large city bookstore that sells books and music cd's, and also has a cafe. Currently, bb uses a single-driver system to allocate its operating costs to each of its three product lines, using the the number of items sold as the single cost driver. But bb's management is concerned that this allocation system may not be providing the best information for making a variety of pricing decisions. Bb's operating costs for 2017 were as follows:

Guardian inc. is trying to develop an asset-financing plan. the firm has $450,000 in temporary current assets and $350,000 in permanent current assets. guardian also has $550,000 in fixed assets. assume a tax rate of 40 percent. a. construct two alternative financing plans for guardian. one of the plans should be conservative, with 70 percent of assets financed by long-term sources, and the other should be aggressive, with only 56.25 percent of assets financed by long-term sources. the current interest rate is 12 percent on long-term funds and 7 percent on short-term financing. compute the annual interest payments under each plan.

Conor is 21 years old and just started working after college. he has opened a retirement account that pays 2.5% interest compounded monthly. he plans on making monthly deposits of $200. how much will he have in the account when he reaches 591 years of age?

If a country is looking to increase economic growth quickly, it should: choose the correct answer from the following choices, and then select the submit answer button. answer choices focus on natural resources and develop physical capital. make investments from domestic savings and adopt new technology. increase spending on human capital and start a new political approach. develop new technologies funded by the public sector.