Granfield Company has a piece of manufacturing equipment with a book value of $36,500 and a remaining useful life of four years. At the end of the four years the equipment will have a zero salvage value. The market value of the equipment is currently $21,300. Granfield can purchase a new machine for $113,000 and receive $21,300 in return for trading in its old machine. The new machine will reduce variable manufacturing costs by $18,300 per year over the four-year life of the new machine. The total increase or decrease in net income by replacing the current machine with the new machine (ignoring the time value of money) is:

You are bearish on telecom and decide to sell short 100 shares at the current market price of $50 per share. a. how much in cash or securities must you put into your brokerage account if the broker’s initial margin requirement is 50% of the value of the short position? b. how high can the price of the stock go before you get a margin call if the maintenance margin is 30% of the value of the short position? (input the amount as a positive value. round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

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

Part 1: interview at least three different people you know that fall within three age ranges (25-35), (36-50), and (51-70) year of age. ask each person you interview if they have life insurance (term, whole life etc.) and health insurance. ask what factors influenced their decision to buy or not the insurance coverage? report your findings to this assignment. specify who the people were that you spoke with.\