Retirement Investment Advisors, Inc., has just offered you an annual interest rate of 4.8 percent until you retire in 45 years. You believe that interest rates will increase over the next year and you would be offered 5.4 percent per year one year from today. If you plan to deposit $15,000 into the account either this year or next year, how much more will you have when you retire if you wait one year to make your deposit

Adamson company manufactures four lines of garden tools. as a result of an activity analysis, the accounting department has identified eight activity cost pools. each of the product lines is produced in large batches, with the whole plant devoted to one product at a time. classify each of the following activities or costs as either unit-level, batch-level, product-level, or facility-level. activities (a) machining parts. (b) product design. (c) plant maintenance. (d) machine setup. (e) assembling parts. (f) purchasing raw materials. (g) property taxes. (h) painting.