Bradley works for Prestige Motors, an automobile dealership. All employees can buy a car at the company's cost plus 4%. The company does not charge employees the $500 dealer preparation fee that nonemployees must pay. Bradley purchased an automobile for $33,280 ($32,000 + $1,280). The company's cost was $32,000. The price for a nonemployee would have been $35,110 ($34,610 + $500 preparation fee).What is Bradley's gross income, if any, from the purchase of the automobile?

Precision dyes is analyzing two machines to determine which one it should purchase. the company requires a rate of return of 15 percent and uses straight-line depreciation to a zero book value over the life of its equipment. ignore bonus depreciation. machine a has a cost of $462,000, annual aftertax cash outflows of $46,200, and a four-year life. machine b costs $898,000, has annual aftertax cash outflows of $16,500, and has a seven-year life. whichever machine is purchased will be replaced at the end of its useful life. which machine should the company purchase and how much less is that machine's eac as compared to the other machine's

Why do you think the compensation plans differ at the two firms? in particular, why do you think kaufmann’s pays commissions to salespeople, while parkleigh does not? why does parkleigh offer employees discounts on purchases, while kaufmann’s does not?

Warner inc. sells a high-speed retrieval system for mining information. it provides the following information for the year. budgeted actual overhead cost $965,700 $905,000 machine hours 58,570 49,200 direct labor hours 107,300 104,200 overhead is applied on the basis of direct labor hours. compute the predetermined overhead rate. predetermined overhead rate $ per direct labor hour link to text determine the amount of overhead applied for the year. the amount of overhead applied $