Five years ago, tom loaned his son john $20,000 to start a business. a note was executed with an interest rate of 8%, which is the federal rate. the note required monthly payments of the interest with the $20,000 due at the end of ten years. john always made the interest payments until last year. during the current year, john notified his father that he was bankrupt and would not be able to repay the $20,000 or the accrued interest of $1,800. tom is an accrual basis taxpayer whose only income is salary and interest income. the proper treatment for the nonpayment of the note is: a. no deduction. b. $3,000 deduction. c. $20,000 deduction. d. $21,800 deduction. e. none of the above.

Consider each of the following cases: case accounting break-even unit price unit variable cost fixed costs depreciation 1 127,400 $ 38 $ 25 $ 711,000 ? 2 124,000 ? 41 2,500,000 $ 900,000 3 5,753 117 ? 171,000 100,000 required: (a) find the depreciation for case 1. (do not round your intermediate calculations.) (b) find the unit price for case 2. (do not round your intermediate calculations.) (c) find the unit variable cost for case 3. (do not round your intermediate calculations.)

Acompany that makes shopping carts for supermarkets and other stores recently purchased some new equipment that reduces the labor content of the jobs needed to produce the shopping carts. prior to buying the new equipment, the company used 6 workers, who produced an average of 79 carts per hour. workers receive $16 per hour, and machine coast was $49 per hour. with the new equipment, it was possible to transfer one of the workers to another department, and equipment cost increased by $11 per hour while output increased by four carts per hour. a) compute the multifactor productivity (mfp) (labor plus equipment) under the prior to buying the new equipment. the mfp (carts/$) = (round to 4 decimal places). b) compute the productivity changes between the prior to and after buying the new equipment. the productivity growth = % (round to 2 decimal places)

Factors like the unemployment rate, the stock market, global trade, economic policy, and the economic situation of other countries have no influence on the financial status of individuals. true or false