What do you think are some of the main issues that medical billers are having while filing paper claims? in what way can electronic claims reduce some of those issues?

Bond x is noncallable and has 20 years to maturity, a 7% annual coupon, and a $1,000 par value. your required return on bond x is 10%; if you buy it, you plan to hold it for 5 years. you (and the market) have expectations that in 5 years, the yield to maturity on a 15-year bond with similar risk will be 9.5%. how much should you be willing to pay for bond x today? (hint: you will need to know how much the bond will be worth at the end of 5 years.) do not round intermediate calculations. round your answer to the nearest cent.

Croy inc. has the following projected sales for the next five months: month sales in units april 3,850 may 3,875 june 4,260 july 4,135 august 3,590 croy’s finished goods inventory policy is to have 60 percent of the next month’s sales on hand at the end of each month. direct material costs $2.50 per pound, and each unit requires 2 pounds. raw materials inventory policy is to have 50 percent of the next month’s production needs on hand at the end of each month. raw materials on hand at march 31 totaled 3,741 pounds. 1. determine budgeted production for april, may, and june. 2. determine the budgeted cost of materials purchased for april, may, and june. (round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

Caleb construction (cc) incurs supervisor salaries expense in the construction of homes. if cc manufactures 100 homes in a year, fixed supervisor salaries will be $400,000. with the current construction supervisors, cc's productive capacity is 150 homes in a year. however, if cc is contracts to build more than 150 homes per year, it will need to hire additional supervisors, which are hired as full-time rather than temporary employees. cc's productive capacity would then become 200 homes per year, and salaries expense would increase to $470,000. how would cc’s salaries expense be properly classified? fixed variable mixed stepped curvilinear