Bob and Michael started a technology support company called eSys Answers. During year 1, they bought the following assets (placed in service on date of purchase) and incurred the following start-up fees:Year 1 Assets Purchase Data BasisComputers (5-year) October 30, Y1 $ 15,000Office equipment (7-year)October 30, Y1 10,000Furniture (7-year) October 30, Y1 3,000Start-up costs October 30, Y1 17,000In year 1, they elected to expense the start-up costs to the maximum extent possible. Note: immediate expensing reduces basis. On April 30, year 2, they purchased a customer list (a Section 197 intangible) for $10,000 from a company providing virtually the same services. During the summer of year 2, they purchased a small van (for transportation, not considered a luxury auto) and a business-use machine (7-year life). They bought the van and placed it in service on June 15, Y2, for $18,000. The machine cost $4,000 and was placed in service on July 1, Y2.Year 2 Assets Purchase DateBasisVan June 15, Y2 $ 18,000Machine (7-year) July 1, Y2 4,000Customer list April 30, Y2 10,000Assume that eSys Answers does not claim any §179 expense or bonus depreciation. (Use MACRS Table 1, Table 2, Table 3, Table 4 and Table 5.) (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to the nearest whole dollar amount.)Required:a. What are the maximum cost recovery deductions for eSys Answers for Y1 (including immediate expensing) and Y2? Note: start with completing the table for Part C. Year 1 maximum cost recovery will be the Immediate Expense column total (C10) plus the Year 1 Cost Recovery column total (D10). Year 2 maximum cost recovery will be the Year 2 Cost Recovery column total (E10).c. What is eSys Answers’s basis in each of its assets at the end of Y2?

Ajustification for job training programs is that they improve worker productivity. suppose that you are asked to evaluate whether more job training makes workers more productive. however, rather than having data on individual workers, you have access to data on manufacturing firms in ohio. in particu- lar, for each firm, you have information on hours of job training per worker (training) and number of nondefective items produced per worker hour (output). (i) carefully state the ceteris paribus thought experiment underlying this policy question. (ii) does it seem likely that a firm’s decision to train its workers will be independent of worker characteristics? what are some of those measurable and unmeasurable worker characteristics? (iii) name a factor other than worker characteristics that can affect worker productivity. (iv) if you find a positive correlation between output and training, would you have convincingly established that job training makes workers more productive? explain.

On june 1, 2017, blossom company was started with an initial investment in the company of $22,360 cash. here are the assets, liabilities, and common stock of the company at june 30, 2017, and the revenues and expenses for the month of june, its first month of operations: cash $4,960 notes payable $12,720 accounts receivable 4,340 accounts payable 840 service revenue 7,860 supplies expense 1,100 supplies 2,300 maintenance and repairs expense 700 advertising expense 400 utilities expense 200 equipment 26,360 salaries and wages expense 1,760 common stock 22,360 in june, the company issued no additional stock but paid dividends of $1,660. prepare an income statement for the month of june.

2. the external environment (connect)choose whether each example belongs in the general, task, or internal environment.exampleenvironmenta worldwide recession task environment / general environment / internal environmentlocal mothers asking their community grocery store to carry no-salt cheerios-type cereal for their babies task environment / general environment / internal environmentchoose the phrase that best completes the following sentence.the relationship between the task environment and the general environment is best described as: a one-way system: changes in the task environment affect the general environment, but changes in the general environment do not affect the task environment.an open system: changes in the task environment affect the general environment, and changes in the general environment affect the task environment.a one-way system: changes in the general environment affect the task environment, but changes in the task environment do not affect the general environment.a closed system: changes in the general environment do not affect the task environment, and changes in the task environment do not affect the general environment.©bloomberg via getty imagesmanagement in the newsin april 2010, the explosion of british petroleum’s (bp) deepwater horizon oil drilling rig and the accompanying oil spill dramatically changed the external environment in which all oil companies operate. the explosion released more oil than any other accidental spill in history and had a huge impact on the waters and surrounding communities of the gulf coast. the conditions that led to the spill, the attempts to stop the spill, and the clean-up and aftermath of the spill prompted debates in the u.s. senate, concern on wall street, and attention from companies all over the world.match each oil spill event with a specific dimension of the general environment.eventgeneral environment dimensionbp stock prices falling 25% during the first month after the oil spill oil seeping into pelican nesting grounds, which will place the brown pelican back on the endangered species list people moving from louisiana to oklahoma to avoid the effects of the spill