A mechanic sued his former employer in federal court, claiming that the employer had discharged him because of his age in violation of federal law. The employer answered, denying the claims and promptly moving for summary judgment. In support of the motion, the employer attached the mechanic's employment evaluations for the past three years, which rated his skills and performance as poor and culminated in a recommendation for his discharge. What is the mechanic's best argument to defeat the summary judgment motion

The county collector of suncoast county is responsible for collecting all property taxes levied by funds and governments within the boundaries of the county. to reimburse the county for estimated administrative expenses of operating the tax agency fund, the agency fund deducts 1.5 percent from the collections for the town, the school district, and the other towns. the total amount deducted is added to the collections for the county and remitted to the suncoast county general fund.the following events occurred in 2017: 1. current-year tax levies to be collected by the agency were: county general fund $ 10,333,000 town of bayshore general fund 4,840,000 suncoast county consolidated school district 6,550,000 other towns 3,120,000 total $ 24,843,000 2. $13,700,000 of current taxes was collected during the first half of 2017.3. liabilities to all funds and governments as a result of the first half-year collections were recorded. (a schedule of amounts collected for each participant, showing the amount withheld for the county general fund and net amounts due the participants, is recommended for determining amounts to be recorded for this transaction.)4. all cash in the tax agency fund was distributed.requireda. prepare journal entries for each of the foregoing transactions that affected the tax agency fund. (if no entry is required for a transaction/event, select "no journal entry required" in the first account field. do not round intermediate calculations. round your answers to the nearest whole dollar amount.)1. record the current-year tax levies to be collected by the agency.2.record the current taxes collected during the first half of 2017.3.record the liabilities due to all funds and governments at the end of first half-year.4. record the distribution of all cash in the tax agency fundb. prepare journal entries for each of the foregoing entries that affected the town of bayshore general fund. begin with the tax levy entry, assuming 2 percent of the gross levy will be uncollectible. (if no entry is required for a transaction/event, select "no journal entry required" in the first account field. do not round intermediate calculations. round your answers to the nearest whole dollar amount.)1.record the revenues receivable and uncollectible.2. record the taxes collected

Sweeten company had no jobs in progress at the beginning of march and no beginning inventories. the company has two manufacturing departments--molding and fabrication. it started, completed, and sold only two jobs during march—job p and job q. the following additional information is available for the company as a whole and for jobs p and q (all data and questions relate to the month of march): molding fabrication total estimated total machine-hours used 2,500 1,500 4,000 estimated total fixed manufacturing overhead $ 10,000 $ 15,000 $ 25,000 estimated variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour $ 1.40 $ 2.20 job p job q direct materials $ 13,000 $ 8,000 direct labor cost $ 21,000 $ 7,500 actual machine-hours used: molding 1,700 800 fabrication 600 900 total 2,300 1,700 sweeten company had no underapplied or overapplied manufacturing overhead costs during the month. required: for questions 1-8, assume that sweeten company uses a plantwide predetermined overhead rate with machine-hours as the allocation base. for questions 9-15, assume that the company uses departmental predetermined overhead rates with machine-hours as the allocation base in both departments. 1. what was the company’s plantwide predetermined overhead rate? (round your answer to 2 decimal places.) next

The struter partnership has total partners’ equity of $510,000, which is made up of main, capital, $400,000, and frist, capital, $110,000. the partners share net income and loss in a ratio of 80% to main and 20% to frist. on november 1, adison is admitted to the partnership and given a 15% interest in equity and a 15% share in any income and loss. prepare journal entries to record the admission of adison for a 15% interest in the equity and a 15% share in any income and loss under the following independent assumptions. (1) record the admission of adison with an investment of $90,000 for a 15% interest in the equity and a 15% share in any income and loss. (2) record the admission of adison with an investment of $120,000 for a 15% interest in the equity and a 15% share in any income and loss. (3) record the admission of adison with an investment of $80,000 for a 15% interest in the equity and a 15% share in any income and loss.