Interest versus dividend income During the year just ended, Shering Distributors, Inc., had pretax earnings from operations of $ 486 comma 000. In addition, during the year it received $ 21 comma 000 in income from interest on bonds it held in Zig Manufacturing and received $ 21 comma 000 in income from dividends on its 5 % common stock holding in Tank Industries, Inc. Shering is in the 34 % tax bracket and is eligible for a 70 % dividend exclusion on its Tank Industries stock. a. Calculate the firm's tax on its operating earnings only. b. Find the tax and the after-tax amount attributable to the interest income from Zig Manufacturing bonds. c. Find the tax and the after-tax amount attributable to the dividend income from the Tank Industries, Inc., common stock. d. Compare, contrast, and discuss the after-tax amounts resulting from the interest income and dividend income calculated in parts b. and c.

Tony prince is the project manager for the recreation and wellness intranet project. team members include you, a programmer/analyst and aspiring project manager; patrick, a network specialist; nancy, a business analyst; and bonnie, another programmer/analyst. other people are supporting the project from other departments, including yusaff from human resources and cassandra from finance. assume that these are the only people who can be assigned and charged to work on project activities. recall that your schedule and cost goals are to complete the project in six months for under $200,000.task 2identify at least eight milestones for the recreation and wellness intranet project. write a short paper describing each milestone using the smart criteria. discuss how determining these milestones might add activities or tasks to the gantt chart. remember that milestones normally have no duration, so you must have tasks that will lead to completing the milestone.