How are hourly wages and salary different? select the best answer from the choices provided. a. salary is less money than hourly wages. b. salary is more money than hourly wages. c. salary is pay for a fixed number of hours; hourly wages are pay for a variable number of hours. d. salary is a fixed amount per year; hourly wages are a fixed amount per hour.

Pear co.’s income statement for the year ended december 31, as prepared by pear’s controller, reported income before taxes of $125,000. the auditor questioned the following amounts that had been included in income before taxes: equity in earnings of cinn co. $ 40,000 dividends received from cinn 8,000 adjustments to profits of prior years for arithmetical errors in depreciation (35,000) pear owns 40% of cinn’s common stock, and no acquisition differentials are relevant. pear’s december 31 income statement should report income before taxes of