On January 1, 2020, the City of Hastings creates a solid waste landfill that it expects to reach capacity gradually over the next 20 years. If the landfill were to be closed at the current time, closure costs would be approximately $1.08 million plus an additional $770,000 for postclosure work. Of these totals, the city must pay $54,000 on December 31 of each year for preliminary closure work. At the end of 2020, the landfill reaches 2 percent of capacity. At the end of 2021, the landfill reaches 13 percent of capacity. At the end of 2021, a reassessment is made. Experts determine total closure costs will be $1.28 million rather than $1.08 million.

The wall street journal reported that walmart stores inc. is planning to lay off 2,300 employees at its sam's club warehouse unit. approximately half of the layoffs will be hourly employees (the wall street journal, january 25-26, 2014). suppose the following data represent the percentage of hourly employees laid off for 15 sam's club stores. 55 56 44 43 44 56 60 62 57 45 36 38 50 69 65 (a) compute the mean and median percentage of hourly employees being laid off at these stores. (b) compute the first and third quartiles. (c) compute the range and interquartile range. (d) compute the variance and standard deviation. (e) do the data contain any outliers? (f) based on the sample data, does it appear that walmart is meeting its goal for reducing the number of hourly employees?

Consider derek's budget information: materials to be used totals $64,750; direct labor totals $198,400; factory overhead totals $394,800; work in process inventory january 1, $189,100; and work in progress inventory on december 31, $197,600. what is the budgeted cost of goods manufactured for the year? a. $1,044,650 b. $649,450 c. $657,950 d. $197,600

After successfully completing your corporate finance class, you feel the next challenge ahead is to serve on the board of directors of schenkel enterprises. unfortunately, you will be the only person voting for you. the company has 375,000 shares outstanding, and the stock currently sells for $40, if there are four seats in the current election, how much will it cost you to buy a seat?