In the role of a cultural steward, an hr manager primarily: a. administers day-to-day work of managing people. b. facilitates an organization’s culture and to build and strengthen or change that culture. c. develops people strategies to control attrition rates. d. understands how the business makes money. e. recognizes business trends and their impact on the business.

Your parents have accumulated a $170,000 nest egg. they have been planning to use this money to pay college costs to be incurred by you and your sister, courtney. however, courtney has decided to forgo college and start a nail salon. your parents are giving courtney $20,000 to her get started, and they have decided to take year-end vacations costing $8,000 per year for the next four years. use 8 percent as the appropriate interest rate throughout this problem. use appendix a and appendix d for an approximate answer, but calculate your final answer using the formula and financial calculator methods. a. how much money will your parents have at the end of four years to you with graduate school, which you will start then?