Is the ability of a country's citizens to make their own economic choices.

Which of the following is false regarding the links between jit and quality? a. jit increases the cost of obtaining good quality. b. as quality improves, fewer inventory buffers are needed; in turn, jit performs better. c. jit reduces the number of potential sources of error by shrinking queues and lead times. d. inventory hides bad quality; jit immediately exposes it. e. if consistent quality exists, jit allows firms to reduce all costs associated with inventory.

On january 8, the end of the first weekly pay period of the year, regis company's payroll register showed that its employees earned $22,760 of office salaries and $70,840 of sales salaries. withholdings from the employees' salaries include fica social security taxes at the rate of 6.20%, fica medicare taxes at the rate of 1.45%, $13,260 of federal income taxes, $1,450 of medical insurance deductions, and $860 of union dues. no employee earned more than $7,000 in this first pay period. required: 1.1 calculate below the amounts for each of these four taxes of regis company. regis’s merit rating reduces its state unemployment tax rate to 3% of the first $7,000 paid to each employee. the federal unemployment tax rate is 0.60

Cash flows during the first year of operations for the harman-kardon consulting company were as follows: cash collected from customers, $360,000; cash paid for rent, $44,000; cash paid to employees for services rendered during the year, $124,000; cash paid for utilities, $54,000.in addition, you determine that customers owed the company $64,000 at the end of the year and no bad debts were anticipated. also, the company owed the gas and electric company $2,400 at year-end, and the rent payment was for a two-year period.calculate accrual net income for the year.