Mattola Company is giving each of its employees a holiday bonus of $125 on December 16 (a non payday). The company wants each employee's check to be $125. The supplemental tax percent is used. Round your calculations and answers to the nearest cent. a. What will be the gross amount of each bonus if each employee pays a state income tax of 2.8% (besides the other payroll taxes)?
b. What would the net amount of each bonus check be if the company did not gross-up the bonus?

Haley photocopying purchases a paper from an out-of-state vendor. average weekly demand for paper is 150 cartons per week for which haley pays $15 per carton. in bound shipments from the vendor average 1000 cartoons with an average lead time of 3 weeks. haley operates 52 weeks per year; it carries a 4-week supply of inventory as safety stock and no anticipation inventory. the vendor has recently announced that they will be building a faculty near haley photocopying that will reduce lead time to one week. further, they will be able to reduce shipments to 200 cartons. haley believes that they will be able to reduce safety stock to a 1-week supply. what impact will these changes make to haley’s average inventory level and its average aggregated inventory value?