On january 1, 2017, ridge road company acquired 20 percent of the voting shares of sauk trail, inc., for $2,900,000 in cash. both companies provide commercial internet support services but serve markets in different industries. ridge road made the investment to gain access to sauk trail's board of directors and thus facilitate future cooperative agreements between the two firms. ridge road quickly obtained several seats on sauk trail's board which gave it the ability to significantly influence sauk trail's operating and investing activities.

What preforms the best over the long term? a) bonds b) mutual funds c) stocks d) certificate of deposit

On january 8, the end of the first weekly pay period of the year, regis company's payroll register showed that its employees earned $22,760 of office salaries and $70,840 of sales salaries. withholdings from the employees' salaries include fica social security taxes at the rate of 6.20%, fica medicare taxes at the rate of 1.45%, $13,260 of federal income taxes, $1,450 of medical insurance deductions, and $860 of union dues. no employee earned more than $7,000 in this first pay period. required: 1.1 calculate below the amounts for each of these four taxes of regis company. regis’s merit rating reduces its state unemployment tax rate to 3% of the first $7,000 paid to each employee. the federal unemployment tax rate is 0.60

Customers arrive at rich dunn's styling shop at a rate of 3 per hour, distributed in a poisson fashion. rich can perform an average of 5 haircuts per hour, according to a negative exponential distribution. a) the average number of customers waiting for haircuts= customersb) the average number of customers in the shop= customersc) the average time a customer waits until it is his or her turn= minutesd) the average time a customer spends in the shop= minutese) the percentage of time that rich is busy= percent