Firms hl and ll are identical except for their financial leverage ratios and the interest rates they pay on debt. each has $20 million in invested capital, has $4 million of ebit, and is in the 40% federal-plus-state tax bracket. firm hl, however, has a debt-to-capital ratio of 50% and pays 12% interest on its debt, whereas ll has a 30% debt-to-capital ratio and pays only 10% interest on its debt. neither firm uses preferred stock in its capital structure. a. calculate the return on invested capital (roic) for each firm. b. calculate the return on equity (roe) for each firm. c. observing that hl has a higher roe, ll’s treasurer is thinking of raising the debt-to-capital ratio from 30% to 60% even though that would increase ll’s interest rate on all debt to 15%. calculate the new roe for ll.

You want to paint your room yellow, so you get some samples at the paint store. when you hold the sample against your white wall, it looks different from the way it looks against the green curtain. a psychologist would attribute this to perceptual constancy. visual paradoxes. contrast effects. threshold differences.

Your team has identified the risks on the project and determined their risk score. the team is in the midst of determining what strategies to put in place should the risks occur. after some discussion, the team members have determined that the risk of losing their network administrator is a risk they'll just deal with if and when it occurs. although they think it's a possibility and the impact would be significant, they've decided to simply deal with it after the fact. which of the following is true regarding this question? a. this is a positive response strategy. b. this is a negative response strategy. c. this is a response strategy for either positive or negative risk known as contingency planning. d. this is a response strategy for either positive or negative risks known as passive acceptance.

The following information relates to the pina company. date ending inventory price (end-of-year prices) index december 31, 2013 $73,700 100 december 31, 2014 100,092 114 december 31, 2015 107,856 126 december 31, 2016 123,009 131 december 31, 2017 113,288 136 use the dollar-value lifo method to compute the ending inventory for pina company for 2013 through 2017.