Melissa invests $37,000 today in a savings account that pays 4 percent interest compounded annually. She wants to know the total balance in her account seven years from today. Identify the correct keystrokes to be used in a financial calculator to determine the total balance.

a. N = 7, I/Y = 4, PV = -37,000
b. N = 7, I/Y = 4%, PV = -37,000
c. N = 7, I/Y = 4, PV = 37,000
d. N = 7, I/Y = 4%, PV = 37,000

The cook corporation has two divisions--east and west. the divisions have the following revenues and expenses: east west sales $ 603,000 $ 506,000 variable costs 231,000 300,000 traceable fixed costs 151,500 192,000 allocated common corporate costs 128,600 156,000 net operating income (loss) $ 91,900 $ (142,000 ) the management of cook is considering the elimination of the west division. if the west division were eliminated, its traceable fixed costs could be avoided. total common corporate costs would be unaffected by this decision. given these data, the elimination of the west division would result in an overall company net operating income (loss)

Advertisers are usually very conscious of their audience. choose an issue of a popular magazine such as time, sports illustrated, vanity fair, rolling stone, or the like. from that issue select three advertisements to analyze. try to determine the audience being appealed to in each advertisement and analyze the appeals used to persuade buyers. how might the appeals differ is the ads were designed to persuade a different audience.

Acompany's sales in year 1 were $300,000, year 2 were $351,000, and year 3 were $400,000. using year 2 as a base year, the sales percent for year 3 is