Marcus, a prolific shoe buyer, refuses to be assisted by male store clerks. the owner of your shoe town, therefore, informs his staff that only female employees should attend to marcus because he does not want to anger a patron of his store. one of the male clerks, austen, believes that this is illegal gender discrimination. also, since part of his incentive pay is based on meeting the monthly sales target, he feels that this policy illegally denies him the opportunity to earn incentives because of his gender. is austen correct?

The vaska company buys a patent on january 1, year one, and agrees to pay $100,000 per year for the next five years. the first payment is made immediately, and the payments are made on each january 1 thereafter. if a reasonable annual interest rate is 8 percent, what is the recorded value of the patent? 1. $378,4252. $431,2133. $468,9504. $500,000

Atlas manufacturing produces a unique valve, and has the capacity to produce 50,000 valves annually. currently atlas produces 40,000 valves and is thinking about increasing production to 45,000 valves next year. what is the most likely behavior of total manufacturing costs and unit manufacturing costs given this change? a. total manufacturing costs will increase and unit manufacturing costs will also increase. b. total manufacturing costs will stay the same and unit manufacturing costs will stay the same. c. total manufacturing costs will increase and unit manufacturing costs will decrease. d. total manufacturing costs will increase and unit manufacturing costs will stay the same.

Zapper has beginning equity of $257,000, net income of $51,000, dividends of $40,000 and investments by stockholders of $6,000. its ending equity is