You started planning for your retirement. Assume a fixed horizon (given below) and a given annual inflation rate. For the first years you will be making contributions at the beginning of the year (adjusted for the inflation beginning in year 2) in order to meet the following retirement goal: Starting in year K, withdraw a desired amount (IN TODAY'S DOLLARS) at the beginning of each year until the end of the horizon. For the first few years, you will be using more aggressive investments (higher expected return). For the next few years assume a different return another for the remainder of the years. Build a model to answer the question: What is the minimum first contribution to accomplish such a retirement goal

Sarah borrowed $16,500 on may 23 with interest due on september 3. if the interest rate is 9%, find the interest on the loan using exact interest and ordinary interest.

White company has two departments, cutting and finishing. the company uses a job-order costing system and computes a predetermined overhead rate in each department. the cutting department bases its rate on machine-hours, and the finishing department bases its rate on direct labor-hours. at the beginning of the year, the company made the following estimates: department cutting finishing direct labor-hours 6,000 30,000 machine-hours 48,000 5,000 total fixed manufacturing overhead cost $ 264,000 $ 366,000 variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour $ 2.00 " variable manufacturing overhead per direct labor-hour " $ 4.00 required: 1. compute the predetermined overhead rate for each department. 2. the job cost sheet for job 203, which was started and completed during the year, showed the following: department cutting finishing direct labor-hours 6 20 machine-hours 80 4 direct materials $ 500 $ 310 direct labor cost $ 108 $ 360 using the predetermined overhead rates that you computed in requirement (1), compute the total manufacturing cost assigned to job 203. 3. would you expect substantially different amounts of overhead cost to be assigned to some jobs if the company used a plantwide predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor-hours, rather than using departmental rates?

Suppose the number of equipment sales and service contracts that a store sold during the last six (6) months for treadmills and exercise bikes was as follows: treadmill exercise bike total sold 185 123 service contracts 67 55 the store can only sell a service contract on a new piece of equipment. of the 185 treadmills sold, 67 included a service contract and 118 did not.