Common uses of the statement of cash flows include all but which of the following?
a. management prediction of future cash flows for decision making.
b. investor assessment of cash flows before buying and selling stock.
c. creditor evaluation of a company's ability to generate cash to cover debt.
d. government assessment of whether company is able to pay taxes as they become due.
e. management determination of the specific sources and uses of cash.

The wall street journal reported that walmart stores inc. is planning to lay off 2,300 employees at its sam's club warehouse unit. approximately half of the layoffs will be hourly employees (the wall street journal, january 25-26, 2014). suppose the following data represent the percentage of hourly employees laid off for 15 sam's club stores. 55 56 44 43 44 56 60 62 57 45 36 38 50 69 65 (a) compute the mean and median percentage of hourly employees being laid off at these stores. (b) compute the first and third quartiles. (c) compute the range and interquartile range. (d) compute the variance and standard deviation. (e) do the data contain any outliers? (f) based on the sample data, does it appear that walmart is meeting its goal for reducing the number of hourly employees?