Fortune company's direct materials budget shows the following cost of materials to be purchased for the coming three months: january february march material purchases $12,040 $14,150 $10,970 payments for purchases are expected to be made 50% in the month of purchase and 50% in the month following purchase. the december accounts payable balance is $6,500. the expected january 31 accounts payable balance is: a. $6,500. b. $7,075. c. $12,040. d. $6,020. e. $9,270.

Afamily wishes to save for future college expenses. which financial tool should the family invest in?

James jones is the owner of a small retail business operated as a sole proprietorship. during 2017, his business recorded the following items of income and expense: revenue from inventory sales $ 147,000 cost of goods sold 33,500 business license tax 2,400 rent on retail space 42,000 supplies 15,000 wages paid to employees 22,000 payroll taxes 1,700 utilities 3,600 compute taxable income attributable to the sole proprietorship by completing schedule c to be included in james’s 2017 form 1040. compute self-employment tax payable on the earnings of james’s sole proprietorship by completing a 2017 schedule se, form 1040. assume your answers to parts a and b are the same for 2018. further assume that james's business is not a service business, and that it has $155,000 unadjusted basis in tangible depreciable property. calculate james's 2018 section 199a deduction.

In a high school with 3000 students, counselors are putting together a math tutoring program for the neighboring middle school. they plan to invite high school students with high average test scores to tutor middle school students, and they would like to offer gift cards to the student tutors. the counselors have a spreadsheet showing each student’s average test scores, and in order to find out how many gift cards they should purchase, the counselors need to count how many students would qualify to become tutors. which type of function would best the counselors determine the number of eligible students?