During the year, Belyk Paving Co. had sales of $2,560,000. Cost of goods sold, administrative and selling expenses, and depreciation expense were $1,364,000, $685,000, and $477,000, respectively. In addition, the company had an interest expense of $302,000 and a tax rate of 24 percent. (Ignore any tax loss or carryforward provision and assume interest expense is fully deductible.) a. What is the company's net income? (A negative answer should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round Intermediate calculations and round your answer to the nearest whole number, e. g., 32.)
b. What is its operating cash flow? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to the nearest whole number, e. g., 32.)
a. Net income
b. Operating cash

Costco wholesale corporation operates membership warehouses selling food, appliances, consumer electronics, apparel and other household goods at 471 locations across the u.s. as well as in canada, mexico and puerto rico. as of its fiscal year-end 2005, costco had approximately 21.2 million members. selected fiscal-year information from the company's balance sheets follows. ($ millions). selected balance sheet data 2005 2004 merchandise inventories $4,015 $3,644 deferred membership income (liability) 501 454 (a) during fiscal 2005, costco collected $1,120 cash for membership fees. use the financial statement effectstemplate to record the cash collected for membership fees. (b) in 2005, costco recorded $46,347 million in merchandise costs (that is, cost of goods sold). record thistransaction in the financial statement effects template. (c) determine the value of merchandise that costco purchased during fiscal-year 2005. use the financial statementeffects template to record these merchandise purchases. assume all of costco's purchases are on credit.