Betsy strand’s regular hourly wage rate is $16, and she receives an hourly rate of $24 for work in excess of 40 hours. during a january pay period, betsy works 47 hours. betsy’s federal income tax withholding is $95, and she has no voluntary deductions. assume that the fica tax rate is 7.65%. prepare the employer’s journal entries to record (a) betsy’s pay for the period and (b) the payment of betsy’s wages. use january 15 for the end of the pay period and the payment date. (round answers to 2 decimal places, e. g. 15.25. credit account titles are automatically indented when amount is entered. do not indent manually.)

Information on gerken power co., is shown below. assume the company’s tax rate is 40 percent. debt: 9,400 8.4 percent coupon bonds outstanding, $1,000 par value, 21 years to maturity, selling for 100.5 percent of par; the bonds make semiannual payments. common stock: 219,000 shares outstanding, selling for $83.90 per share; beta is 1.24. preferred stock: 12,900 shares of 5.95 percent preferred stock outstanding, currently selling for $97.10 per share. market: 7.2 percent market risk premium and 5 percent risk-free rate. required: calculate the company's wacc. (do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) wacc %

Using a cps-sample of 7,440 individuals, you estimate the following regression: = 20.91 - 2.61 x female where female is a binary variable that takes on the value of 1 for females and is 0 otherwise. the standard error on the coefficient on female is 0.25. the 95% confidence interval for the gender wage gap, or the amount that females earn less, is: a) [-3.10, -2.12] b) [18.30, 23.52] c) [-3.02, -2.20] d) [-1.96, -1.64]

Choose all that apply. a financially-responsible person has a budget has no plan spends less than they make pays for everything with a credit card saves their money pays bills on time