Suppose that General Motors Acceptance Corporation just issued a bond with 10 years until maturity, a face value of $1000 and a coupon rate of 8% (annual payments). The yield to maturity on this bond when it was issued was 6%. a) What was the price of this bond when it was issued? b) Is this bond sold at a discount, at par, or at a premium (relative to the face value)? c) The yield to maturity increased to 9% immediately after it made its fourth coupon payment. What is the price of the bond immediately after it makes its fourth coupon payment (i. e., P4)? d) What is the annualized rate of return of your investment if you sell the bond immediately after it makes its fourth coupon payment (i. e., t=4)? e) If the inflation rate is 2% per year calculate the real annualized rate of return (i. e., the annualized rate of return that you got in part d but adjusted for inflation).

The framers of the us constitution created a system of government that established branches of government set forth the powers of such a branches and placed limits on those powers what are the benefits of such a system? are there any problems associated with such a system?

Zachary company produces commercial gardening equipment. since production is highly automated, the company allocates its overhead costs to product lines using activity-based costing. the costs and cost drivers associated with the four overhead activity cost pools follow: activities unit level batch level product level facility level cost $ 64,800 $ 27,730 $ 15,000 $ 154,000 cost driver 2,400 labor hrs. 47 setups percentage of use 11,000 units production of 780 sets of cutting shears, one of the company’s 20 products, took 240 labor hours and 7 setups and consumed 15 percent of the product-sustaining activities. required: (a) had the company used labor hours as a company wide allocation base, how much overhead would it have allocated to the cutting shears? (b) how much overhead is allocated to the cutting shears using activity-based costing? (c) compute the overhead cost per unit for cutting shears first using activity-based costing and then using direct labor hours for allocation if 780 units are produced. if direct product costs are $150 and the product is priced at 30 percent above cost for what price would the product sell under each allocation system? (d) assuming that activity-based costing provides a more accurate estimate of cost, indicate whether the cutting shears would be over- or underpriced if direct labor hours are used as an allocation base. explain how over-or undercosting can affect vaulker's profitability. (e) comment on the validity of using the allocated facility-level cost in the pricing decision. should other costs be considered in a cost- plus pricing decision? if so, which ones? what costs would you include if you were trying to decide whether to accept a special order?

Answer the following questions using the banker’s algorithm: a. illustrate that the system is in a safe state by demonstrating an order in which the processes may complete. b. if a request from process p1 arrives for (1, 1, 0, 0), can the request be granted immediately? c. if a request from process p