Answer: Option A
Explanation: Operating income refers to the income that the company earns from performing its core operations. It is also denoted as EBIT. Thus, the difference between operating income and income after tax is the tax that has been deducted from the operating income.
While calculating accounting profit, opportunity cost is not deducted from the revenue hence before tax and after tax depicts the investments that were made to earn that profit.
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Given the following parameters:
The employer pays the employee (gross earnings) – $1,200
The employer pays for social security and medicare taxes – $91.80
The employer pays for the Federal
Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA) – $9.60
The employer pays for the State
Unemployment Tax Act (SUTA) – $64.80
The total cost of this employee to the employer is the summation of all these costs
1,200 + 91.80 + 9.60 + 64.80 = $1366.20
