One of the most profitable business endeavors that amazon pursues is its cloud service offering aws. in 2014, aws revenues were an estimated $6 billion, but bringing in $1 billion in profits. what is amazon’s core business? is aws related to amazon’s core business? why or why not? some investors are pressuring jeff bezos to spin out aws as a standalone company. do you agree with this corporate strategy recommendation? why or why not? (hint: do you believe aws would be more valuable within amazon or as a standalone company? )

When calculating the bountiful returns that retirees allegedly would glean from stock investments, privateers use rosy projections about a continually booming market. but when predicting bankruptcy for social security, they switch to pessimistic projections of a low-growth economy with abnormally low payments into the fund. in fact, far from going broke, social security produces enormous surpluses. from __ to americans paid more in social security taxes than were paid out in benefits. according to the congressional budget office, the social security trust fund will remain solvent until at least social security is the only federal program that produces about $150 billion yearly surplus, the only program that shows every sign of being selfsupporting and solvent for over thirty years to come yet is repeatedly described by its enemies as being in danger of insolvency?

On january 1, jackson, inc.'s work-process inventory account showed a balance of $ 66,500. during the year, materials requisitioned for use in production amounted to $ 70,500, of which $ 67,700 represented direct materials. factory wages for the period were $ 210,000 of which $ 187,000 were for direct labor. manufacturing overhead is allocated on the basis of 60% of direct labor cost. actual overhead was $ 116,050. jobs costing $ 353,060 were completed during the year. the december 31 balance in work-process inventory is

Select the correct answer. martha is a healer, a healthcare provider, and an experienced nurse. she wants to share her daily experiences, as well as her 12 years of work knowledge, with people who may be interested in health and healing. which mode of internet communication can martha use? a. wiki b. email c. message board d. chat e. blog