Bunny babbett has just become an independent contractor selling the products of tweethouse, a firm that makes elaborate (and expensive) birdhouses and bird feeders. bunny was recruited to the firm by sylvester katt, who already sells the tweethouse products as an independent contractor. sylvester told bunny that both he and she would receive a commission on every item she sold. he also pointed out that she could boost her income significantly by recruiting more people to sell the products, because she would receive a commission on her recruits' sales. the arrangement described by sylvester suggests that tweethouse is using:

a. multilevel marketing
b. hierarchial distribution
c. line and staff selling
d. the lorenzo method.

rural residential development company and suburban real estate corporation form a joint stock company. the longest duration a joint stock company can be formed for is

Your parents have accumulated a $170,000 nest egg. they have been planning to use this money to pay college costs to be incurred by you and your sister, courtney. however, courtney has decided to forgo college and start a nail salon. your parents are giving courtney $20,000 to her get started, and they have decided to take year-end vacations costing $8,000 per year for the next four years. use 8 percent as the appropriate interest rate throughout this problem. use appendix a and appendix d for an approximate answer, but calculate your final answer using the formula and financial calculator methods. a. how much money will your parents have at the end of four years to you with graduate school, which you will start then?

Catherine de bourgh has one child, anne, who is 18 years old at the end of the year. anne lived at home for seven months during the year before leaving home to attend state university for the rest of the year. during the year, anne earned $6,000 while working part time. catherine provided 80 percent of anne's support and anne provided the rest. which of the following statements regarding whether anne is catherine's qualifying child for the current year is correct? a. anne is a qualifying child of catherine. b.anne is not a qualifying child of catherine because she fails the gross income test. c.anne is not a qualifying child of catherine because she fails the residence test. d.anne is not a qualifying child of catherine because she fails the support test.