Afirm has common stock with a market price of $100 per share and an expected dividend of $5.61 per share at the end of the coming year. a new issue of stock is expected to be sold for $98, with $2 per share representing the underpricing necessary in the competitive capital market. flotation costs are expected to total $1 per share. the dividends paid on the outstanding stock over the past five years are as follows:
year div
1 $4
2 4.28
3 4.58
4 4.90
5 5.24

the cost of this new issue of common stock is
a. 5.8%
b. 7.7%
c. 10.8%
d. 12.8%

Auniversity spent $1.8 million to install solar panels atop a parking garage. these panels will have a capacity of 400 kilowatts (kw) and have a life expectancy of 20 years. suppose that the discount rate is 20%, that electricity can be purchased at $0.10 per kilowatt-hour (kwh), and that the marginal cost of electricity production using the solar panels is zero. hint: it may be easier to think of the present value of operating the solar panels for 1 hour per year first. approximately how many hours per year will the solar panels need to operate to enable this project to break even? a. a.3,696.48 b.14,785.92 c.9,241.20 if the solar panels can operate only for 8,317 hours a year at maximum, the project (would/would not)break even?

Carlos hears juan and rita’s complaints about the new employees with whom they have to work with, as well as their threats to quit the company. if carlos were to reassign juan and rita to new, unique roles and separate them from the ronny and bill, it would signal that carlos has moved into the stage of managing resistance.

Bcorporation, a merchandising company, reported the following results for october: sales $ 490,000 cost of goods sold (all variable) $ 169,700 total variable selling expense $ 24,200 total fixed selling expense $ 21,700 total variable administrative expense $ 13,200 total fixed administrative expense $ 33,600 the contribution margin for october is: