The following budget information is available for the Arch Company for January Year 2: Sales $ 860,000 Cost of goods sold 540,000 Utilities expense 2,800 Administrative salaries 100,000 Sales commissions 5 % of sales Advertising 20,000 Depreciation on store equipment 50,000 Rent on administration building 60,000 Miscellaneous administrative expenses 10,000 All operating expenses are paid in cash in the month incurred. Compute the total budgeted selling and administrative expenses (excluding interest) amount for January Year 2.

Acompany is developing a new high­performance wax for cross country ski racing. in order to justify the price marketingwants, the wax needs to be very fast. specifically, the mean time to finish their standard test course should be less thanseconds for a former olympic champion. to test it, the champion will ski the course 8 times. the champion's times(selected at random) are 59.9 61.9 48.8 52.2 46.6 45.3 50.6 and 41.1 seconds to complete the test course. complete parts a and b below. a) should they market the wax? assume the assumptions and conditions for appropriate hypothesis testing are metfor the sample. assume=0.05. what are the null and alternative hypotheses? choose the correct answer below. b) suppose they decide not to market the wax after the test, but it turns out that the wax really does lower the champion'saverage time to less thanseconds. what kind of error have they made? explain the impact to the company of such anerror.

After the 2008 recession, the amount of reserves in the us banking system increased. because of federal reserve actions, required reserves increased from $44 billion to $60 billion. however, banks started holding more reserves than required. by january 2009, banks were holding $900 billion in excess reserves. the federal reserve started paying interest on the excess reserves that the banks held. what possible impact will these unused reserves have on the economy?

Biochemical corp. requires $600,000 in financing over the next three years. the firm can borrow the funds for three years at 10.80 percent interest per year. the ceo decides to do a forecast and predicts that if she utilizes short-term financing instead, she will pay 7.50 percent interest in the first year, 12.15 percent interest in the second year, and 8.25 percent interest in the third year. assume interest is paid in full at the end of each year. a)determine the total interest cost under each plan. a) long term fixed rate: b) short term fixed rate: b) which plan is less costly? a) long term fixed rate plan b) short term variable rate plan