Carla met her manager to discuss an issue she was facing in the office. during the meeting, her manager's phone was constantly ringing. this made it difficult for carla to explain her problem clearly. her manager, distracted by the ringing phone, could not grasp the significance of the problem and sent carla back with half-hearted promises to take appropriate action. in this scenario, the ringing telephone represents

On january 8, the end of the first weekly pay period of the year, regis company's payroll register showed that its employees earned $22,760 of office salaries and $70,840 of sales salaries. withholdings from the employees' salaries include fica social security taxes at the rate of 6.20%, fica medicare taxes at the rate of 1.45%, $13,260 of federal income taxes, $1,450 of medical insurance deductions, and $860 of union dues. no employee earned more than $7,000 in this first pay period. required: 1.1 calculate below the amounts for each of these four taxes of regis company. regis’s merit rating reduces its state unemployment tax rate to 3% of the first $7,000 paid to each employee. the federal unemployment tax rate is 0.60