Brad and angelina are a wealthy couple who have three children, fred, bridget, and lisa. two of the three children, fred and bridget, are from brad's previous marriages. on christmas last year, brad gave each of the three children a cash gift of $10,000, and angelina gave lisa an additional cash gift of $40,000. brad also gave stock worth $40,000 (adjusted basis of $10,000) to the actor's guild (an "a" charity).

a. brad and angelina have chosen to split gifts. calculate brad's gift tax. assume that angelina has no previous taxable gifts, but brad reported previous taxable gifts of $2 million in 2009 when he used $345,800 of unified credokit and paid $435,000 of gift taxes.

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Oceanside marine company manufactures special metallic materials and decorative fittings for luxury yachts that require highly skilled labor. oceanside uses standard costs to prepare its flexible budget. for the first quarter of the year, direct materials and direct labor standards for one of their popular products were as follows: direct materials: 2 pound per unit; $ 11 per pound direct labor: 2 hours per unit; $ 19 per hour oceanside produced 2 comma 000 units during the quarter. at the end of the quarter, an examination of the direct materials records showed that the company used 7 comma 500 pounds of direct materials and actual total materials costs were $ 98 comma 100. what is the direct materials cost variance? (round any intermediate calculations to the nearest cent, and your final answer to the nearest dollar.)

Storico co. just paid a dividend of $3.15 per share. the company will increase its dividend by 20 percent next year and then reduce its dividend growth rate by 5 percentage points per year until it reaches the industry average of 5 percent dividend growth, after which the company will keep a constant growth rate forever. if the required return on the company’s stock is 12 percent, what will a share of stock sell for today?