Espana Corporation purchased $100,000 of Hales Inc. 6% bonds at par in 2020 and reported the bonds at amortized cost. Unfortunately, a combination of problems at Hales and in the debt market caused the fair value of the Hales investment to decline to $70,000 during 2021. When Espana applies the ECL model to account for its investment in 2021, Espana concludes that the credit risk on the investment has increased significantly and calculates that, of the $30,000 drop in fair value, $10,000 of it relates to 12-month credit losses, $25,000 to lifetime credit losses (including the 12-month credit losses), and $5,000 to other factors. Espana’s accounting for this impairment will reduce before-tax net income for 2021 by:

Which statement best explains the relationship between points a and b? a. consumption reaches its highest point, and then supply begins to fall. b. inflation reaches its highest point, and then the economy begins to expand. c. production reaches its highest point, and then the economy begins to contract. d. unemployment reaches its highest point, and then inflation begins to decrease.

Thomas kratzer is the purchasing manager for the headquarters of a large insurance company chain with a central inventory operation. thomas's fastest-moving inventory item has a demand of 6,000 units per year. the cost of each unit is $100, and the inventory carrying cost is $10 per unit per year. the average ordering cost is $30 per order. it takes about 5 days for an order to arrive, and the demand for 1 week is 120 units. (this is a corporate operation, and the are 250 working days per year.)a) what is the eoq? b) what is the average inventory if the eoq is used? c) what is the optimal number of orders per year? d) what is the optimal number of days in between any two orders? e) what is the annual cost of ordering and holding inventory? f) what is the total annual inventory cost, including cost of the 6,000 units?

Portia grant is an employee who is paid monthly. for the month of january of the current year, she earned a total of $8,388. the fica tax for social security is 6.2% of the first $118,500 earned each calendar year and the fica tax rate for medicare is 1.45% of all earnings. the futa tax rate of 0.6% and the suta tax rate of 5.4% are applied to the first $7,000 of an employee's pay. the amount of federal income tax withheld from her earnings was $1,391.77. what is the total amount of taxes withheld from the portia's earnings?