Albert had a terminal illness that would require almost constant nursing care for the remaining two years of his estimated life, according to his doctor. Albert had a life insurance policy with a face amount of $100,000. He had paid $25,000 of premiums on the policy. The insurance company has offered to pay him $80,000 to cancel the policy, although its cash surrender value was only $55,000. He accepted the $80,000. Albert used $15,000 to pay his medical expenses. Albert made a miraculous recovery and lived another 20 years. Required:
What are the tax consequences for Albert when he cashed out the policy?

Which term refers to the cost that motivates an economic decision

Performance bicycle company makes steel and titanium handle bars for bicycles. it requires approximately 1 hour of labor to make one handle bar of either type. during the most recent accounting period, barr company made 7,700 steel bars and 2,300 titanium bars. setup costs amounted to $35,000. one batch of each type of bar was run each month. if a single company-wide overhead rate based on direct labor hours is used to allocate overhead costs to the two products, the amount of setup cost assigned to the steel bars will be:

Mr. beautiful, an organization that sells weight training sets, has an ordering cost of $40 for the bb-1 set. (bb-1 stands for body beautiful number 1.) the carrying cost for bb-1 is $5 per set per year. to meet demand, mr. beautiful orders large quantities of bb-1 seven times a year. the stockout cost for bb-1 is estimated to be $50 per set. over the past several years, mr. beautiful has observed the following demand during the lead time for bb-1: demand during lead time probability40 0.150 0.260 0.270 0.280 0.290 0.1total 1.0the reorder point for bb-1 is 60 sets. what level of safety stock should be maintained for bb-1?