Depreciation and Sale of Business Property (chapter 8).

1. What are the differences between these three code sections: 1231, 1245 and 1250, and when do you apply each?
2. What is Section 179 and When may this Section 179 be used?
3. How does the depreciation recapture rules work?

1. How would you characterize the two biggest differences in the pattern of spending between the three pairs of countries (the US vs South Korea, the US vs Finland, and Finland vs South Korea)?

2. Can you think of differences in the countries and their histories that might account for these differences? You will need to do some research to support your claims.

What are three main differences between High Performance Liquid Chromatography and Gas Chromatography?

In three sentences, describe the similarities between performance and prescriptive specifications as related to design-build.

What are the three main types of survivorship curves? What are the differences between r-selected and K-selected species?

Differentiate between the 3 DNA pols of E. coli (prokaryotic) and the three types of DNA pols in eukaryotes. Be detailed about how they initiate replication, how they carry out it, what is the error rate, and any other differences they might have. Which ones are used in the lab?

Identify and describe the three categories of manufacturing costs. Distinguish between (a) factory overhead and (b) selling and administrative overhead.

Use the following information to answer the next three questions.

Transactions between Japan and the rest of the world in 2019 are shown below.

1. The Japanese government sells 75 million yen worth of treasury securities to foreign investors.
2. Japanese companies purchase 500 million yen of steel from Canada.
3. Japanese automobile manufacturers sell 600 million yen worth of cars abroad.
4. PQU bank (Japanese firm) receives 20 million yen in interest from US investments.
5. Japanese citizens spend 125 million yen in tuition at US universities.
6. Japanese government buys 10 million euros in the FX market.
7. Japan gives 60 million yen in aid to Haiti.

Find the current account balance and express it in terms of millions of yen (EX: enter 2 if the answer is 2,000,000). Do not use currency symbols or words when entering your response.