Information for Hobson Corp. for the current year ($ in millions): Income from continuing operations before tax $ 155 Loss on discontinued operation (pretax) 32 Temporary differences (all related to operating income): Accrued warranty expense in excess of expense included in operating income 10 Depreciation deducted on tax return in excess of depreciation expense 25 Permanent differences (all related to operating income): Nondeductible portion of entertainment expense 5 The applicable enacted tax rate for all periods is 25%. What is Hobson's income tax payable for the current year?

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You are a manager at asda. you have been given the demand data for the past 10 weeks for swim rings for children. you decide to run multiple types of forecasting methods on the data to see which gives you the best forecast. if you were to use exponential smoothing with alpha =.8, what would be your forecast for week 22? (the forecast for week 21 was 1277.) week demand 12 1317 13 1307 14 1261 15 1258 16 1267 17 1256 18 1268 19 1277 20 1277 21 1297

Christopher kim, cfa, is a banker with batts brothers, an investment banking firm. kim follows the energy industry and has frequent contact with industry executives. kim is contacted by the ceo of a large oil and gas corporation who wants batts brothers to underwrite a secondary offering of the company's stock. the ceo offers kim the opportunity to fly on his private jet to his ranch in texas for an exotic game hunting expedition if kim's firm can complete the underwriting within 90 days. according to cfa institute standards of conduct, kim: a) may accept the offer as long as he discloses the offer to batts brothers.b) may not accept the offer because it is considered lavish entertainment.c) must obtain written consent from batts brothers before accepting the offer.