Venus Office Supplies offers customers a $0.50 coupon for turning in their empty printer cartridges. Venus collects the cartridges and then returns them to the producer for recycling. This is an example of .

Sam robinson borrowed $21,000 from a friend and promised to pay the loan in 10 equal annual installments beginning one year from the date of the loan. sam’s friend would like to be reimbursed for the time value of money at a 9% annual rate. what is the annual payment sam must make to pay back his friend?

In its 2016 annual report, caterpillar inc. reported the following (in millions): 2016 2015 sales $38,537 $47,011 cost of goods sold 28,309 33,546 as a percentage of sales, did caterpillar's gross profit increase or decrease during 2016? select one: a. gross profit increased from 26.8% to 28.6% b. gross profit decreased from 28.6% to 26.5% c. gross profit increased from 71.4% to 73.2% d. gross profit decreased from 73.2% to 71.4% e. there is not enough information to answer the question.

One pound of material is required for each finished unit. the inventory of materials at the end of each month should equal 20% of the following month's production needs. purchases of raw materials for february would be budgeted to be: