Thom corporation is considering an investment opportunity with the following expected net cash inflows:

year 1, $ 230,000; year 2, $ 370,000; year 3, $ 360,000.

the company uses a discount rate of 13%, and the initial cost of the investment is $ 720,000.

present value of $1:
| 10% | 11% | 12% | 13% | 14% | 15%
1 | 0.909 | 0.901 | 0.893 | 0.885 | 0.877 | 0.870
2 | 0.826 | 0.812 | 0.797 | 0.783 | 0.769 | 0.756
3 | 0.751 | 0.731 | 0.712 | 0.693 | 0.675 | 0.658
4 | 0.683 | 0.659 | 0.636 | 0.613 | 0.592 | 0.572
5 | 0.621 | 0.593 | 0.567 | 0.543 | 0.519 | 0.497

the irr of the project will be
a. between 13% and 14%
b. less than 13%
c. between 14% and 15%
d. more than 13%

Answer the following questions with true or false and provide a brief explanation (2- 3 sentences) a) economies of scale in production give rise to multi-product firms. b) ace hardware corporation is an example of economies of scale in production.

Symantec corp., located in cupertino, california, is one of the world's largest producers of security and systems management software. the company's consolidated balance sheets for the 2009 and 2008 fiscal years included the following ($ in thousands): current assets: receivables, less allowances of $21,766 in 2009 and $24,089 in 2008 $ 838,010 $ 758,700 a disclosure note accompanying the financial statements reported the following ($ in thousands): year ended 2009 2008 (in thousands) trade accounts receivable, net: receivables $ 859,776 $ 782,789 less: allowance for doubtful accounts (8,938) (8,990) less: reserve for product returns (12,828) (15,099) trade accounts receivable, net: $ 838,010 $ 758,700 assume that the company reported bad debt expense in 2009 of $2,000 and had products returned for credit totaling $3,230 (sales price). net sales for 2009 were $6,174,800 (all numbers in thousands).required: what is the amount of accounts receivable due from customers at the end of 2009 and 2008? what amount of accounts receivable did symentec write off during 2009? what is the amount of symentec’s gross sales for the 2009 fiscal year? assuming that all sales are made on a credit basis, what is the amount of cash symentec collected from customers during the 2009 fiscal year?

Storico co. just paid a dividend of $3.15 per share. the company will increase its dividend by 20 percent next year and then reduce its dividend growth rate by 5 percentage points per year until it reaches the industry average of 5 percent dividend growth, after which the company will keep a constant growth rate forever. if the required return on the company’s stock is 12 percent, what will a share of stock sell for today?