Suppose that while melissa was on the coast, she also spent two days sightseeing the national parks in the area. to do the sightseeing, she paid $1,000 for transportation, $800 for lodging, and $450 for meals during this part of her trip, which she considers personal in nature. what amount of the travel costs can melissa deduct as business expenses?

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.

Type of deposit reserve requirementcheckable deposits $7.8 - 48.3 million 3%over $48.3 million 10noncheckable personal savings and time deposits 0refer to the accompanying table. if a bank has $60 million in savings deposits and $40 million in checkable deposits, then its required reserves are$1.2 million.

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