Aschool sells pizza slices at the concession stand during each sporting event. the school sells a mean of 200 slices per event with a standard deviation of 25 slices. the school spends $160 of fixed costs to buy the pizza before the event and earns a revenue of $2 per slice. they calculate their profit per event according to this formula:

On january 15, the end of the first biweekly pay period of the year, north company’s payroll register showed that its employees earned $32,000 of sales salaries. withholdings from the employees’ salaries include fica social security taxes at the rate of 6.2%, fica medicare taxes at the rate of 1.45%, $3,000 of federal income taxes, $772 of medical insurance deductions, and $260 of union dues. no employee earned > $7,000 in this first period. prepare the journal entry to record north company’s january 15 (employee) payroll expenses and liabilities.

Storico co. just paid a dividend of $3.15 per share. the company will increase its dividend by 20 percent next year and then reduce its dividend growth rate by 5 percentage points per year until it reaches the industry average of 5 percent dividend growth, after which the company will keep a constant growth rate forever. if the required return on the company’s stock is 12 percent, what will a share of stock sell for today?

Aproperty title search firm is contemplating using online software to increase its search productivity. currently an average of 40 minutes is needed to do a title search. the researcher cost is $2 per minute. clients are charged a fee of $400. company a's software would reduce the average search time by 10 minutes, at a cost of $3.50 per search. company b's software would reduce the average search time by 12 minutes at a cost of $3.60 per search. which option would have the higher productivity in terms of revenue per dollar of input?