You have just purchased and have obtained a 30-year, $2 mortgage with an interest rate of 10 percent. required: a. what is your annual payment? b. assuming you bought the house on january 1, what is the principal balance after one year? c. after four years, mrtgage rates drop to 8 percent for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages. you still have the old 10 percent mortgage you signed four years ago and you plan to live in the house for another five years. the total cost to refinance the mortgage is $3000, including legal fees, closing costs, and points. the rate on a five-year cd is 6 percent. should you refinance your mortgage or invest the $3,000 in a cd? the 6 percent cd rate is your opportunity cost of capital.

Ail industries uses activity-based costing to assist management in setting prices for the company's three major product lines. the following information is available: activity cost pool estimated overhead expected use of cost driver per activity cutting $1,000,000 25,000 labor hours stitching 8,000,000 320,000 machine hours inspections 2,800,000 160,000 labor hours packing 960,000 64,000 finished goods units compute the activity-based overhead rates. (round answers to 2 decimal places, e. g. 12.25.)

Which of the following statements is true regarding the definition of a fund? a fund is a fiscal entity which is designed to provide reporting that demonstrates conformance with finance-related legal and contractual provisions separately from gaap reporting. a fund exists to assist in carrying on activities and attaining objectives where there are no specific rules or restrictions. a fund is an accounting entity which is designed to enable reporting in conformity with gaap without being restricted by legal or contractual provisions. a fund is a mechanism developed to provide accounting for revenues and expenditures that are subject to certain restrictions separate from revenues and expenditures that are not subject to restrictions.

4. suppose that pollution in a neighborhood comes from two factories, with marginal benefit curves given by mb1 = 12 – p1 and mb2 = 8 – p2. the level of pollution in the neighborhood is given by p = p1 + p2. the government wants to limit pollution by instituting a pollution-rights market. the government’s desired level of p is 10, so it prints 10 pollution rights and offers them for sale to the firms. a)find the equilibrium selling price of a pollution right, as well as the allocation of rights (and hence pollution levels) across the two factories. b)repeat part (a) for the case where the government’s desired level of pollution equals 14. c)comment on the usefulness of a pollution rights market in achieving efficient levels of pollution abatement.