Welfare includes all of the following EXCEPT (a) Social Security
(b) Medicare
(c) Occupational Safety and Health Administration
(d) Medicaid

For the past six years, the price of slippery rock stock has been increasing at a rate of 8.21 percent a year. currently, the stock is priced at $43.40 a share and has a required return of 11.65 percent. what is the dividend yield? 3.20 percent 2.75 percent 3.69 percent

Costco wholesale corporation operates membership warehouses selling food, appliances, consumer electronics, apparel and other household goods at 471 locations across the u.s. as well as in canada, mexico and puerto rico. as of its fiscal year-end 2005, costco had approximately 21.2 million members. selected fiscal-year information from the company's balance sheets follows. ($ millions). selected balance sheet data 2005 2004 merchandise inventories $4,015 $3,644 deferred membership income (liability) 501 454 (a) during fiscal 2005, costco collected $1,120 cash for membership fees. use the financial statement effectstemplate to record the cash collected for membership fees. (b) in 2005, costco recorded $46,347 million in merchandise costs (that is, cost of goods sold). record thistransaction in the financial statement effects template. (c) determine the value of merchandise that costco purchased during fiscal-year 2005. use the financial statementeffects template to record these merchandise purchases. assume all of costco's purchases are on credit.

In william rathje's garbology project that focused on household waste, front door interviews found 15 percent of respondents saying that they consumed beer. the trash discard from the same area showed what percentage of household's consuming beer