The Jones are a married couple and have always filed joint tax returns. On May 18, 2017, the couple was assessed with tax deficiencies for the 2015 tax year. The assessment relates to income paid to Mr. Jones which was not reported on the joint return. The couple’s accountant prepared the return. The couple reported $50,000 income for 2015. The amount of the income omitted was $200,000. Mrs. Jones is a homemaker. She admits that based on their lifestyle she thought the couple's income was approximately $100,000 ($50,000 more than reported). However she had limited access to her husband's financial documents and relied on the accountant. She claims she had no knowledge of the extent of the unreported income and assumed much of their income was non- taxable in nature. You should advise her that she:

a. Under no circumstances will she be responsible for any of the taxes due because an accountant prepared the return.
b. May be able to avoid liability to the extent she had no actual knowledge of the deficiency when filing the return. The burden of proof will be on the IRS.
c. May be able to avoid liability to the extent she had no reason to know of the deficiency (and did not have actual knowledge) when filing the return. The burden of proof will be on her.
d. None of the above.

You are evaluating two different silicon wafer milling machines. the techron i costs $285,000, has a three-year life, and has pretax operating costs of $78,000 per year. the techron ii costs $495,000, has a five-year life, and has pretax operating costs of $45,000 per year. for both milling machines, use straight-line depreciation to zero over the project’s life and assume a salvage value of $55,000. if your tax rate is 24 percent and your discount rate is 11 percent, compute the eac for both machines.

David burdick is the ceo of acme bubblegum, a successful public company. as one of the cofounders of the company, burdick has enjoyed speaking and writing about the success of acme bubblegum for several years. typically, he speaks at conferences or directly to the press, but recently, he has been blogging about his firm anonymously. specifically, he defended a recent advertising campaign that was unpopular among consumers and pointedly attacked one of acme bubblegum’s competitors. burdick deeply enjoys his anonymous blogging and believes that none of his readers actually know that he works for acme bubblegum. should burdick be allowed to praise his company’s performance anonymously online? should he be allowed to attack his competitors without disclosing his relationship with the company? how would you feel if the ceo of a company at which you shopped was secretly writing criticisms of his or her competition? how would you feel if you knew a writer for your favorite blog was actually closely involved in a company that the blog discussed? 1. define the ethical issue? 2. who are the primary stakeholders? 3. what are the possible alternatives? 4. how could you evaluate the ethical implications of the alternative actions (use appropriate decision rules)? 5. what action would you recommend and why?

The interaction of individual choices because a type of fish is on the verge of extinction, the government imposes rules that prohibit fishing in the publicly owned spawning grounds. at first owners of fshing bouts complain about this restriction on where they can fish, but soon they notice that the number of adult fish swimming outside the protected area is much higher than it was before. with the restriction, each fishing boat ends up catching more fish than it did before the r which of the following principles of economic interaction best describes this scenario? o there is a tradeoff between equality and efficiency o markets usually lead to efficiency. o when markets do not achieve efficiency, government intervention can improve overall welfare o markets allocate goodseffectively