Marissa, a product manager, thinks her company's InstaCup coffee maker is currently in the growth stage of the product life cycle. If so, the profits for the InstaCup coffee maker ___ and the number of competitors . a. are increasing; is growing b. are declining; is growing c. are negative; is growing d. are declining; is declining e. have peaked; is declining

Fess receives wages totaling $74,500 and has net earnings from self-employment amounting to $71,300. in determining her taxable self-employment income for the oasdi tax, how much of her net self-employment earnings must fess count? a. $74,500 b. $71,300 c. $53,900 d. $127,200 e. none of the above.

The following information is available for jase company: market price per share of common stock $25.00 earnings per share on common stock $1.25 which of the following statements is correct? a. the price-earnings ratio is 20 and a share of common stock was selling for 20 times the amount of earnings per share at the end of the year. b. the market price per share and the earnings per share are not statistically related to each other. c. the price-earnings ratio is 5% and a share of common stock was selling for 5% more than the amount of earnings per share at the end of the year. d. the price-earnings ratio is 10 and a share of common stock was selling for 125 times the amount of earnings per share at the end of the year.

You are evaluating two different silicon wafer milling machines. the techron i costs $285,000, has a three-year life, and has pretax operating costs of $78,000 per year. the techron ii costs $495,000, has a five-year life, and has pretax operating costs of $45,000 per year. for both milling machines, use straight-line depreciation to zero over the project’s life and assume a salvage value of $55,000. if your tax rate is 24 percent and your discount rate is 11 percent, compute the eac for both machines.