The following transactions occurred during a recent year: .a Paid wages of $1,700 for the current period (example).
b. Borrowed $8,500 cash from local bank using a short-term note.
c. Purchased $3,400 of equipment on credit.
d. Earned $680 of sales revenue; collected cash.
e. Received $1,360 of utilities services, on credit.
f. Earned $2,870 of service revenue, on credit.
g. Paid $510 cash on account to a supplier.
h. Incurred $115 of travel expenses; paid cash.
i. Earned $680 of service revenue; collected half in cash, with balance on credit.
j. Collected $190 cash from customers on account.
k. Incurred $480 of advertising costs; paid half in cash, with balance on credit.

Required:
Determine the company’s preliminary net income.

The wall street journal reported that walmart stores inc. is planning to lay off 2,300 employees at its sam's club warehouse unit. approximately half of the layoffs will be hourly employees (the wall street journal, january 25-26, 2014). suppose the following data represent the percentage of hourly employees laid off for 15 sam's club stores. 55 56 44 43 44 56 60 62 57 45 36 38 50 69 65 (a) compute the mean and median percentage of hourly employees being laid off at these stores. (b) compute the first and third quartiles. (c) compute the range and interquartile range. (d) compute the variance and standard deviation. (e) do the data contain any outliers? (f) based on the sample data, does it appear that walmart is meeting its goal for reducing the number of hourly employees?