Which of the following is not likely to be a deductible expense?
a. the cost of a party for all of dan's employees to celebrate a record-breaking profits year.
b. the dues for charles coke to join the city chamber of commerce to generally improve the reputation of his business in the community.
c. the cost of tickets to a stage play for a client and the taxpayer.
d. the cost for rosa to take a potential customer to lunch to describe a new service rosa's company is offering. unfortunately, the customer explains that they are not interested in the service.
e. none of these choices are deductible expenses.

Analyzing operational changes operating results for department b of delta company during 2016 are as follows: sales $540,000 cost of goods sold 378,000 gross profit 162,000 direct expenses 120,000 common expenses 66,000 total expenses 186,000 net loss $(24,000) suppose that department b could increase physical volume of product sold by 10% if it spent an additional $18,000 on advertising while leaving selling prices unchanged. what effect would this have on the department's net income or net loss? (ignore income tax in your calculations.) use a negative sign to indicate a net loss answer; otherwise do not use negative signs with your answers. sales $answer cost of goods sold answer gross profit answer direct expenses answer common expenses answer total expenses answer net income (loss) $answer