A New York Times/Kaiser foundation survey of Chicagoans showed that they are deeply dissatisfied with the direction of their city, distrustful of their police force, and divided along racial lines. The poll is based on telephone interviews conducted April 21–May 3, 2016, with 1123 adults who live in Chicago. The samples of telephone exchanges for both landlines and cell phones were randomly selected by a computer from a complete list of exchanges in Chicago (the telephone exchange is the three digits following the area code). Within each exchange, random digits were added to form a complete telephone number, thus permitting access to listed and unlisted numbers alike. Landline respondents are chosen at random within each household on the basis of which member had the most recent birthday.

a. The survey wants the opinion of an individual adult, but a landline phone reaches a household in which several adults may live. In that case, the survey interviewed the adult with the most recent birthday. Why is this preferable to simply interviewing the person who answers the phone?
b. What is the population that this survey wants to describe? Why do you think it is important to include both landline and cellular phones in your sample?
c. Are there residents of Chicago who have telephone numbers that cannot be reached by the survey method described? Explain why this could be a problem. (Hint: How are telephone numbers assigned to cell phone users?)

Lo.2, 3, 9 lori, who is single, purchased 5-years class property for $200,00 and 7-years class property for $420,000 on may 20, 2018. lori experts the taxable income derived form the business (without regard to the amount expensed under ⧠179) to be about $550,000. lori has determined that she should elect immediate ⧠179 expensing in the amount of $520,000, but she doesn’t know which asset she should completely expense under ⧠179. she does not claim any available additional first-year depreciation. a. determine lori’s total cost recovery deduction if the ⧠179 expense is first taken with respect to the 5-year class asset. b. determine lori’s total cost recovery deduction if the ⧠179 expense is first taken with respect to the 7-year class asset. c. what is your advice for lori? d. assume that lori is in the 24% marginal tax bracket and that she uses ⧠179 on the 7-year asset. determine the present value of the tax savings from the depreciation deductions for both assets. see appendix g for present value factors, and assume a 6% discount rate. e. assume the same facts as in part (d), except that lori decides not to use ⧠179 on either asset. determine the present value of the tax savings under this choice. in addition, determine which option lori should choose. f. present your solution to parts (d) and (e) of the problem in a spreadsheet using appropriate microsoft excel formulas. e-mail your spreadsheet to your instructor with a two-paragraph summary of your findings.

What do you recommend adam do to increase production in a business setting that does not seem to value high productivity?

What business practice contributed most to andrew carnegie’s ability to form a monopoly?