Potentially attractive options for allocating a diversified company's financial resources include all of the following, except: making acquisitions to establish positions in new businesses or to complement existing businesses selling all of the company's cash hog businesses and using the proceeds to acquire new cash cow businesses paying off existing long-term or short-term debt, increasing dividend payments to shareholders, building cash reserves, or repurchasing shares of the company's stock investing in ways to strengthen or grow existing businesses funding long-range r& d ventures aimed at opening market opportunities in new or existing businesses

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You own a nonunion company with 93 nonexempt employees. all of these employ- ees pack books into boxes for shipment to customers throughout the united states. because of wide differences in performance, you have decided to try performance appraisal, something never done before. until now, you have given every worker the same size increase. now you want to measure performance and reward the best performers with bigger increases. without any further information, which of the five types of appraisal formats do you think would be most appropriate? justify your answer. do you anticipate any complaints, or other comments, from employees after you implement your new system?

Western electric has 32,000 shares of common stock outstanding at a price per share of $79 and a rate of return of 13.00 percent. the firm has 7,300 shares of 7.80 percent preferred stock outstanding at a price of $95.00 per share. the preferred stock has a par value of $100. the outstanding debt has a total face value of $404,000 and currently sells for 111 percent of face. the yield to maturity on the debt is 8.08 percent. what is the firm's weighted average cost of capital if the tax rate is 39 percent?